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The Blues (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae, Lycaeninae) of Papua Indonesia

by Stefan Schröder

 

Arhopala eucolpis Kirsch, 1877

waigeoensis Bethune-Baker, 1903


Distribution

 

 

 

 

STATUS: Not a common species.

PAPUA LOCALITIES: Misool Island; Waigeo Island; Japen Island: Waropen; New Guinea: Jayapura, Mamberamo Raja, Sarmi, Sorong, Timika, Wandammen Peninsula. Details in gazetteer.

EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION: Moluccas, Papua New Guinea.

DATA SOURCES: KSP. Literature (see below).

 

 


 

 


Literature

Parsons, M., 1999. The butterflies of Papua New Guinea. Their systematics and biology: 736 pp., Academic Press, London.
Schröder, S., 2015. The Arhopala centaurus-group of Evans (1957) in Papua, Indonesia (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Suara Serangga Papua (SUGAPA) 9(1): 1-22.