Flos abseus

Flos abseus, ♀, from original description.

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Theclinae
Tribus: Arhopalini
Genus: Flos
Species: Flos abseus
Subspecies: F. a. abseus – F. a. amphea – F. a. indicus – F. a. mackwoodi – F. a. oghatinna – F. a. ophiala

Name

Flos abseus (Hewitson, 1862)

Type locality: Singapore.

Holotype: ♀ BMNH

Synonymy

• Amblypodia abseus Hewitson, 1862: 9, pl.5, figs 51,52.
• Arhopala abseus nava Fruhstorfer, 1914: 131. North Borneo, BMNH.
• Narathura abseus Hewitson, Evans, 1957: 99.
• Arhopala abseus abseus (Hewitson); Eliot, 1992: 288, 421, pl. 43, figs 8, 9, pl. 69, fig 7, fig. 264 (genit.).
• Flos abseus abseus (Hewitson); Seki, 2010: 20.

References

• 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. 
• Fruhstorfer, H., 1914. Neue Lycaenidae. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift Iris 28(1): 33–35; (2): 121-137. BHL1; BHL2. Reference page. 
• Hewitson, W. C., 1862. Specimen of a Catalogue of Lycaenidae in the British Museum. London, British Museum. 15pp, 8 pls. BHL text, plates. Reference page. 
• Seki, Y. in Seki, Y. & Sasaki, S., 2010. Halimun Mountains, West Java (Indonesia) - Recent lepidopterological survey and new knowledge on Lycaenid butterflies (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Butterflies (Teinopalpus) 56: 15-25, 28 figs. Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Aberrant Oakblue