| Arhopala ariel | |
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| Arhopala ariel in Swinhoe | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Arhopala |
| Species: | A. ariel |
| Binomial name | |
| Arhopala ariel (Doherty, 1891) | |
Arhopala ariel is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by William Doherty in 1891. It is found in the Indomalayan realm (Assam, Peninsular Malaya, Thailand, and Borneo).
ariel is smaller [than ammon , beneath still more variegated, above more radiantly blue, otherwise very similar to ammon which it seems to represent in the north of Indo-China. — asakurae Mats. even goes as far as Formosa. Specimens from there show a more leaden-bluish upper surface with a black marginal band of 2.5 mm width, and beneath they already approximate the Indian paraganesa (147 f) on which Moore founded his genus Acesina.
References
- Doherty, W.1891. New and rare Indian Lycaenidae. Journal of the asiatic Society of Bengal 60(1): 32–37, 1 pl
- Seitz, A., 1912-1927.The Indo-Australian Rhopalocera in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World: a systematic description of the hitherto known macrolepidoptera. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Vol. 9 1197 pp.
- Seitz , A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln
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External links
- Arhopala Boisduval, 1832 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 3, 2017.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Arhopala ariel | |
| Acesina ariel | |