Udara albocaerulea

Udara albocaerulea
U. a. sauteri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Udara
Species:
U. albocaerulea
Binomial name
Udara albocaerulea
(Moore, 1879)
Synonyms
  • Polyommatus albocaeruleus Moore, 1879
  • Cyaniris albocaeruleus
  • Lycaenopsis albocaerulea
  • Celastrina albocaerulea
  • Cyaniris ceyx amadis Fruhstorfer, 1910
  • Lycaenopsis albocoeruleus sauteri Fruhstorfer, 1917
  • Celastrina scharffi Corbet, 1937
  • Celastrina albocaerulea yamanotoi Murayama, 1953

Udara albocaerulea, the albocerulean, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Frederic Moore in 1879. It is found from India (Simla to Assam) to Myanmar, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan.

Subspecies

  • U. a. albocaerulea (Yunnan)
  • U. a. scharffi (Corbet, 1937) (western Malaysia)
  • U. a. sauteri (Fruhstorfer, 1917) (Taiwan) (Udara sauteri is a synonym of Udara albocaerulea)[1])
  • U. a. yamanotoi (Murayama, 1953) (Japan)

References

  1. ^ Hsu, Yu-Feng. "Udara albocaerulea (Moore, 1879)". Catalogue of Life in Taiwan (in Chinese). Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica. Retrieved February 7, 2020.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.