Allotinus fabius

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Angled Darkie
Museum specimen from Malaya
Museum specimen from Malaya
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Allotinus
Species: A. fabius
Binomial name
Allotinus fabius
Allotinus fabius (Distant & Pryer, 1887)

The Angled Darkie Allotinus fabius (Distant & Pryer, 1887) is a small butterfly found in India, Myanmar and South East Asia[1][2][3] that belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues family.

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[edit] Range

Naga Hills, Myanmar, Borneo and Philippines[1]. Nagas to Karens.[3] Malaya

[edit] Ststus

Very Rare.[3]

[edit] Cited references

  1. ^ a b Page on Marrku Savela's site for genus Allotinus (Lycaenidae).
  2. ^ Card for fabius in LepIndex. Accessed 31 December 2006.
  3. ^ a b c Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no H6.6, pp 212

[edit] References

Print

  • Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. 2nd Ed, (i to x, pp454, 9 figs, Plates I to XXXII), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.
  • Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.

Online

  • Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. [1] (accessed 26 September 2007).
  • Savela, Marrku Website on Lepidoptera [2] (accessed 26 September 2007)

[edit] See also

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