ON : Acesina ariel Doherty, 1891 OD : J. asiat. Soc. Bengal, Part II. 60(1):33-34. TL : Margherita, Upper Assam, [India]. (NHML) Distribution : India (Assam), P.Thailand, W.Malaysia, {Singapore}, Borneo.

Arhopala ariel antis Corbet, 1941 : Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B)19(9):168. TL. "Malaya" [W.Malaysia]. (NHML)

[ THAILAND ]
'Arhopala ariel ; Pinratana,1981 : 101, pl.18, fig.2,♂(Un). (Trang)'
'Arhopala ariel ; Ek-Amnuay,[2007] : 646, pl.294, figs.L282,♀,♀(Un). (Trang)'
'Arhopala ariel ; Ek-Amnuay,2012 : 682, pl.311, figs.L306,♀,♀(Un). (Trang)'
'Arhopala paraganesa mendava ; Kimura et al.,2014 : 82, figs.♂,♂(Un). (Ka Chong) (in part)'
'Arhopala ariel ; Kimura et al.,2014 : 83. (by literature)'

The butterfly is uncommon in montane forests at low elevations.
The specimens in Pinratana (1981), Ek-Amnuay ([2007],2012) and the male specimen in Kimura et al. (2014) look quite odd. I suspect that these are different taxon. Further taxonomic and distributional studies are needed.

Doherty, W.,1891 : New and rare Indian Lycaenidae.
J. asiat. Soc. Bengal, Part II. 60(1):32-37, pl.1.

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.

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