| Dark Oak-blue ARHOPALINI, THECLINAE, LYCAENIDAE, PAPILIONOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Alan Cassidy)
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| Dark Oak-blue ARHOPALINI, THECLINAE, LYCAENIDAE, PAPILIONOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Alan Cassidy)
The wings of the male are blue on top with narrow black margins. For the female the wings are paler, inclining more towards violet; the forewings have a twice-sinuate (double-curved) front margin running down into the outer margin; the hindwings have the costal margin, a narrow external border, and the internal border in the anal region blackish-brown; underneath, all wings are as in the male.
Underneath, the wings are grey or brown, each with a pattern including darker spots and bands outlined in white. The hindwings have two basal arcs of three darker spots with white outlines, and two subterminal dark bubbly arcs with white outlines. Both sexes have a small black tail on each hindwing, and have a wingspan of about 4 cms.
The species has been found on
The race gander Evans, 1957, has been found in
Further reading :
Rudolf Felder & Alois F. Rogenhofer,
Zoologischer Theil: Lepidoptera,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Part 9, Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (2) (1865), pp. 226-227, No.250., and also
Plate 29, fig. 9.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 25 May 2026)