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

by Stefan Schröder

Hypochrysops castaneus Sands, 1986

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Distribution

 

 

 

 

 

STATUS: A very rare species. In Indonesian New Guinea only known from few specimens. One specimen was collected "at the coast between the Cenderawasih Bay and Humboldt Bay".

PAPUA LOCALITIES: New Guinea: Pionierbivak, Sorong. Details in gazetteer.

EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION: Papua New Guinea.

DATA SOURCES: Literature (see below).

 

 

 

 

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Literature

Parson, M., 1999. The butterflies of Papua New Guinea. Their systematics and biology: 736 pp., Academic Press, London.
Sands, D.P.A., 1986. A revision of the genus Hypochrysops C. and R. Felder (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Entomonograph 7: 1-116.
Schröder, S., 2013. Notes on West Papuan (Indonesia) Hypochrysops C. & R. Felder, 1860 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Suara Serangga Papua (SUGAPA) 8(2): 41-47.