Arhopala vihara

Arhopala vihara vihara, ♂, Brunei.

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: Arhopala
Species: Arhopala vihara
Subspecies: A. v. hirava – A. v. pagia – A. v. vihara

Name

Arhopala vihara (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1860).

Type locality: West Malaysia, Malacca.

Holotype: ♂ BMNH.

Synonymy

• Amblypodia vihara C. & R. Felder, 1860: 395.
• Narathura vihara (Felder), Evans, 1957: 118.
• Arhopala vihara (Felder); Eliot, 1992: 286, 420, pl.42 figs 10,11, pl.68 fig.1; genit. 253.

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. 
• Felder, C. & Felder, R. 1860. Lepidoptera nova in paeninsula Malayica collecta diagnosibus instructa. Wiener entomologische Monatschrift 4(12): 394–402. BHL Reference page. 

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