Arhopala Agaba

Purple-glazed oakblue
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Arhopala
Species:	A. agaba
Binomial name
	Arhopala agaba; (Hewitson, 1862)
Synonyms
	Amblypodia agaba Hewitson, 1862;

Short description: Species of butterfly

Arhopala agaba, the purple-glazed oakblue, (sometimes placed in Amblypodia)^[1] is a small butterfly found from India to Thailand, Langkawi, Indochina, Peninsular Malaysia to the Philippines and Sumatra that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. The species was first described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1862.

Range

The butterfly occurs in India from Manipur to northern Myanmar and from Karens to southern Myanmar.^[2] It is not rare from Karens to southern Myanmar, but rare elsewhere.^[2]

References

Beccaloni, George; Scoble, Malcolm; Kitching, Ian; Simonsen, Thomas; Robinson, Gaden; Pitkin, Brian; Hine, Adrian; Lyal, Chris. "The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex)". Natural History Museum, London. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
Evans, W. H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation.
Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329. https://books.google.com/books?id=yEkgAQAAMAAJ.