Arhopala chamaeleona

Arhopala chamaeleona is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by George Thomas Bethune-Baker in 1903. It is found in the Indomalayan and Australasian realms.[2]

Arhopala chamaeleona
From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel, Switzerland
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Arhopala
Species:
A. chamaeleona
Binomial name
Arhopala chamaeleona
Synonyms
  • Arhopala elagabulus Fruhstorfer, 1914
  • Arhopala restricta Rothschild, 1916
  • Arhopala heliogabulus Seitz, 1926
  • Narathura maputi Takanami, 1984
  • Narathura mizunumai H. Hayashi, 1978
  • Arhopala rileyi Joicey & Talbot, 1922

Subspecies
  • A. c. chamaeleona (Biak, Noemfoor, Jobi, New Guinea)
  • A. c. rileyi Joicey & Talbot, 1922 (Serang)
  • A. c. mizunumai (Hayashi, 1978) (Philippines: Leyte, Samar, Mindanao, Marinduque)
  • A. c. maputi (Takanami, 1984) (Philippines: Marinduque)
  • A. c. susyae Tennent & Rawlins, 2010 (Moluccas)

References
  1. Bethune-Baker, 1903 A Revision of the Amblypodia Group of Butterflies of the Family Lycaenidae Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 17 (1) : 1-164, pl. 1-5
  2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
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