♂, Kanchanaburi, Thailand.		♀, Kanchanaburi, Thailand.
♂, Phetchaburi, Thailand. (photo by K.Yano)		♂, Phetchaburi, Thailand.

ON : Arhopala aedias meritatas Corbet.1941 OD : Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B)10(9):153. TL : 'Mergui; Langkawi'. (NHML) Distribution : S.Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam. ● ssp.meritatas ● ssp.agnis

[ THAILAND ]
Arhopala aedias meritatas ; Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 608, pl.275, figs.L204a♂,♂(Un). (Phrae) (in part)
Arhopala aedias meritatas ; Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 640, pl.290, figs.L230a♂,♂(Un). (Phrae)
Arhopala aedias meritatas ; Kimura et al.,2014 : 56. (by literature)
Arhopala aedias meritatas ; S.Sophonviwatkul, C.Sunthornwiphat & T.Laola,2024- : Butterflies of Thailand, fig. (Phetchaburi) (accessed: 2024.06.08)

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Arhopala aedias meritatas ; Osada, Uémura & Uehara,1999 : 216, pl.114, fig.♀(Un). (Phong Si)
Arhopala aedias meritatas ; Nakamura & Wakahara,2012 : 53.

[ VIETNAM ]
Arhopala aedias meritatas ; Sugimoto,2011 : 54, figs.♂,♂(Un). (Khanh Hoa: Ba Ho waterfalls, Ninh Ich)
Arhopala aedias meritatas ; Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 60. (C: Khanh Hoa)

[ THAILAND ]
Kanchanaburi : 2♂ 2♀ (incl. photo & photo by A.Giudici and L.Day).

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The butterfly is uncommon and very localized in montane forests at low to moderate elevations (Alt. 350 - 900m). Males form flight paths along streams or forest edges between 16:00 and sunset.
I tentatively treat the population from Phetchaburi as ssp.meritatas, although the female cannot be confirmed. Further taxonomic and distributional studies are needed.

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.,2011 : A first record of Arhopala aedias meritatas Corbet,1941 in Vietnam. (in Japanese)
Butterflies (Teinopalpus) 59:54.

♂, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. (photo by A.Giudici)	♀, Kanchanaburi, Thailand.

2009.04.20 - 2024.06.30.