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Flos chinensis
From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel, Switzerland
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Flos
Species:	F. chinensis
Binomial name
Flos chinensis (C. Felder & R. Felder, )
Synonyms
Arhopala chinensis C. & R. Felder, Nilasera moelleri de Nicéville, 1883 Satadra lazula Moore, 1884 Arhopala asoka vaya Fruhstorfer, 1914

Flos chinensis, the Chinese plushblue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Cajetan and Rudolf Felder in 1865. It is found in the Indomalayan realm (Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, southwest China to Shanghai).

References

1. C. & R. Felder, Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Behilfen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Band 2. Abtheilung 2. Lepidoptera. Rhopalocera Reise Fregatte Novara
2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9

External links

• "Flos Doherty, 1889" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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