Arhopala athada

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Theclinae
Tribus: Arhopalini
Genus: Arhopala
Species: Arhopala athada
Subspecies: A. a. apha – A. a. athada – A. a. baweana – A. a. minor – A. a. wilemani

Arhopala athada, ♂, ♀, Borneo, Java, Courvoisier collection NHM Basel.

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Name

Arhopala athada (Staudinger, 1889])

Type locality: West Malaysia.

Holotype: ♀ BMNH

Synonymy

• Amblypodia adatha Hewitson; Distant, [1885]: 265, pl.23, figs 1,2. Misidentification.
• Amblypodia athada Staudinger, 1889: 125.
• Arhopala drucei Bethune-Baker, 1896: 661, pl.30, figs 1,2. Borneo, Kina-Balu. Lectotype ♂ MNHU, Kinabalu, designated by Takanami, 1989: 27.
• Arhopala agamemnon Corbet, 1941: 160. Singapore, Holotype BMNH.
• Narathura athada (Staudinger), Evans, 1957: 101.
• Arhopala athada (Staudinger), D'Abrera, 1986: 566; Eliot, 1992: 283, 420, pl.42 figs 5,6, pl.67, fig.13, genit. 252.

References

• D'Abrera, B. 1986. Butterflies of the Oriental Region, Part III Lycaenidae & Riodinidae: pp. 536–672. Hill House, Melbourne. Reference page. 
• Bethune-Baker, G.T., 1896. In Druce: Further contributions to our knowledge of the Bornean Lycaenidae. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1896(3): 650-683, 3 pls. BHL text, plates. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A.S. 1941. A key to the Indo-Malayan species of Arhopala Boisduval. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B)10: 149–170. Reference page. 
• Distant, W.L. 1882–1886. Rhopalocera Malayana. xvi + 481pp., 41 pls. London. Reference page. 
• Eliot, J. N. 1972. Some Arhopala from Borneo, with a revision of the Arhopala cleander group (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). J. nat. Hist. 6: 1. Reference page. 
• Eliot, J. N. 1992. With plates by D'Abrera, in Corbet & Pendlebury. The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula 4th Edn. Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur. 595pp., 69 pls. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1957. A revision of the Arhopala group of oriental lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 5(3): 85–141. BHL Reference page. 
• Staudinger, O. 1889. Lepidopteren der Insel Palawan. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift (Iris) 2(1): 3–180, pls. 1,2. Reference page. 
• Takanami, Y., 1989. On some type specimens of Lycaenidae from South East Asia. Tyô to Ga 40(1): 23-80. PDF. Reference page. 

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