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

by Stefan Schröder

 

 

Rapala varuna (Horsfield, 1829)

ssp. guineensis (Staudinger, 1889)

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Distribution

 

 

 

 

STATUS: Rather common species.

PAPUA LOCALITIES: Waigeo Island; Supiori Island; Biak Island; Japen Island; New Guinea: Fakfak, Jayapura, Manokwari, Sorong, Timika, Walmak, Wandammen Peninsula. Details in gazetteer.

EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION: Papua New Guinea.

DATA SOURCES: KSP. Literature (see below).

 

 

 

 

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Literature

Parsons, M., 1999. The butterflies of Papua New Guinea. Their systematics and biology: 736 pp., Academic Press, London.
itson in the Solomon Islands, the Bismarck Archipelago and New Guinea, with descriptions of nine new taxa (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Australian Entomologist 27(1): 9-26.