Arhopala opalina sphendale

Arhopala opalina sphendale Fruhstorfer, 1914

ON : Arhopala camdeo sphendale Fruhstorfer, 1914
OD : Deut. ent. Zeit. [Iris] 27(4):162.
TL : Annam. (♂)

Distribution : S.Vietnam.

	● ssp.opalina
	● ssp.fruhstorferi
	● ssp.sphendale
	● ssp.azata

Records taken from Literature

[ LAOS ]
Arhopala opalina opalina ; Nakamura & Wakahara,2012 : 53, pl.18, figs.Ly-137,♀,♀(Un). (near Attapeu)

[ VIETNAM ]
Amblypodia camdeo sphendale ; Seitz,1924-1927 : 952. (Annam)
Amblypodia camdeo sphendale ; Metaye,1957 : 89. (C)
Arhopala opalina sphendale ; Miyazaki, Saito & Saito,2006d : 60, figs.L-75,♂,♀. (Lam Dong: Dambri)
Arhopala opalina sphendale ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 60. (C: Lam Dong)

Notes

According to Evans,1957, taxon sphendale is a synonym of fruhstorferi. However, the populations from S.Laos and C. to S.Vietnam seem different to ssp.fruhstorferi. I tentatively treat them as ssp.sphendale. Further taxonomic study is needed.

Literature

Fruhstorfer, H., 1914 : Neue Arhopala Rassen.
Deut. ent. Zeit. [Iris] 27(4):155-166.

Corbet, A.S.,1941 : A key to the Indo-Malayan species of Arhopala Boisduval (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)
Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B)10(9):149-183, figs.1-114.

Evans, W.H.,1957 : A Revision of the Arhopala Group of Oriental Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera).
Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 5(3):85-141.

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