Arhopala chamaeleona

Arhopala chamaeleona
	From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel, Switzerland
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Arhopala
Species:	A. chamaeleona
Binomial name
	Arhopala chamaeleona; Bethune-Baker, 1903
Synonyms
	Arhopala elagabulus Fruhstorfer, 1914; Arhopala restricta Rothschild, 1916; Arhopala heliogabulus Seitz, 1926; Narathura maputi Takanami, 1984; Narathura mizunumai H. Hayashi, 1978; Arhopala rileyi Joicey & Talbot, 1922;

Arhopala chamaeleona is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by George Thomas Bethune-Baker in 1903. It is found in the Indomalayan and Australasian realms.^[2]

Subspecies

A. c. chamaeleona (Biak, Noemfoor, Jobi, New Guinea)
A. c. rileyi Joicey & Talbot, 1922 (Serang)
A. c. mizunumai (Hayashi, 1978) (Philippines: Leyte, Samar, Mindanao, Marinduque)
A. c. maputi (Takanami, 1984) (Philippines: Marinduque)
A. c. susyae Tennent & Rawlins, 2010 (Moluccas)

^ Bethune-Baker, 1903 A Revision of the Amblypodia Group of Butterflies of the Family Lycaenidae Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 17 (1) : 1-164, pl. 1-5
^ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9

"Arhopala Boisduval, 1832 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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