Arhopala fulla

Arhopala fulla , the spotless oakblue, is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1862 . It is found in Southeast Asia (Sikkim to Indonesia and the Philippines) [2] [3]

Arhopala fulla
Arhopala fulla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Arhopala
Species:
A. fulla
Binomial name
Arhopala fulla
(Hewitson, 1862)[1]
Synonyms
  • Amblypodia fulla Hewitson, 1862
  • Amblypodia canulia Hewitson, 1869
  • Arhopala canulia sosias Fruhstorfer, 1914
  • Arhopala ignara Riley & Godfrey, 1921
  • Narathura fulla var. andamanica Wood-Mason & de NicĂ©ville, 1881
  • Narathura subfasciata Moore, 1881
  • Arhopala intaca Corbet, 1941
  • Narathura fulla santa Evans, 1957

Subspecies
  • Arhopala fulla fulla (Buru, Ambon)
  • Arhopala fulla babsi Joicey & Talbot, 1917 (Waigeu, Misool, Papua, Tagula)
  • Arhopala fulla canulia (Hewitson, 1869) (Obi, Halmahera, Ternate)
  • Arhopala fulla prasia Fruhstorfer, 1914 (Amboina)
  • Arhopala fulla ignara Riley & Godfrey, 1921 (Burma, Mergui, southern Thailand)
  • Arhopala fulla andamanica (Wood-Mason & de NicĂ©ville, 1881) (Andamans)
  • Arhopala fulla intaca Corbet, 1941 (southern Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo)
  • Arhopala fulla santa (Evans, 1957) (Philippines: Luzon)

References
  1. Hewitson, 1862 Specimen of a Catalogue of Lycaenidae in the British Museum
  2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175
  3. 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
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