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Arhopala critala

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Arhopala critala
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Arhopala
Species:
A. critala
Binomial name
Arhopala critala
(Felder, 1860)[1]
Synonyms
  • Amblypodia critala Felder, 1860

Arhopala critala is a species of butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found on Serang and Ambon.

The female is above blue with a broad blackish-brown margin of the wings, in the hindwing along the posterior part of the border with a series of white-blue spots. Beneath blackish-brown with a broad, joint, whitish band, hindwing with a broad, greenish-blue, black-spotted marginal band.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Arhopala at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Seitz , A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.