Arhopala anarte anarte  (Hewitson, 1862)

Arhopala anarte anarte ♂ Up. Arhopala anarte anarte ♂ Un. Arhopala anarte anarte ♀ Up. Arhopala anarte anarte ♀ Un.
♂, Trat, Thailand. ♀, Trat, Thailand.

ON : Amblypodia anarte Hewitson, 1862
OD : Spec. Cat. Lyc. Birt. Mus. : 5, pl.3, figs.16,17.
TL : ? loc. (NHML)
Distribution : Assam to Myanmar, Thailand, Laos,
Vietnam, W.Malaysia, Sumatra.
Arhopala anarte anarte map

Synonym

Arhopala anarte morphicolor Corbet, 1941 : Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B)10(9):152. TL. Malaya. (♂, NHML)


Records taken from Literature

[ THAILAND ]
Arhopala anarte ; Godfrey,1916 : 139. (Sriracha: Nong Khai Ploi)
Amblypodia anarte ; Godfrey,1927 : 126. (N)
Amblypodia anarte ; Godfrey,1930 : 329. (Sriracha: Nong Khai Ploi)
Narathura anarte anarte ; Evans,1957 : 90. (Siam)
Arhopala anarte ; Pinratana,1981 : 77, pl.12, fig.7,♂(Un). (Chiang Mai)
Arhopala anatre ; Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 604, pl.273, figs.L195,♀,♀(Un). (Chiang Mai)
Arhopala anarte ; Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 634, pl.287, figs.L220,♀,♀(Un). (Chiang Mai)
Arhopala anarte ; Kimura et al.,2014 : 54. (by literature)

[ LAOS ]
Arhopala anatre ; Sugimoto,2009 : 23, figs.1,♂,2,♂(Un). (Borikhamxai: Nam Kata)
Arhopala anatre anarte ; Nakamura & Wakahara,2012 : 53, pl.18, figs.Ly-133.♂,♂(Un). (Bolikhamxai: Namkata)

[ VIETNAM ]
Arhopala anarte anarte ; Saito & Inayoshi,2018 : 35, figs.73,♀,♀(Un). (Bin Thuan)


Specimens Examined

[ THAILAND ]
Chaiyaphum : 1♂.
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec

Trat : 4♂ 1♀ (incl. photo).
JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec


Notes

This species is quite localized, but is not rare in its habitat. The butterfly is found in montane primary forests at low to moderate elevations (Alt. 10 - 1000m). Males form flight paths along streams or forest edges and fly back and forth along them.


Literature

Hewitson, W.C.,1862 : Specimen of a Catalogue of Lycaenidae in the British Museum.
British Museum, London. 4to:[iv]+15pp, 8 pls.

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.

Sugimoto, S.,2009 : A first record of Arhopala anarte in Lao P.D.R.
Yadoriga 223:23. (in Japanese)


Arhopala anarte anarte ♂ Arhopala anarte anarte ♂
♂, Trat, Thailand.
Arhopala anarte anarte ♂
♂, Trat, Thailand.

1999.07.11 - 2022.05.31.

A Check list of Butterflies in Indo-China, Chiefly from THAILAND, LAOS & VIETNAM. Copyright © 1996- Y.Inayoshi.