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| Flos chinensis | |
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| From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel, Switzerland | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Flos |
| Species: | F. chinensis |
| Binomial name | |
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Flos chinensis, the Chinese plushblue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Cajetan and Rudolf Felder in 1865. It is found in the Indomalayan realm (Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, southwest China to Shanghai).Hindwing tail short(1mm). Underside of hindwing with metallic scaling at tornus.Male shining dark blue, border 1 mm. at apex, 4 mm. elsewhere.Male forewing 22 mm.Female purple with broad borders.Seitz 150e.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ↑ C. & R. Felder, [1865] Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Behilfen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Band 2. Abtheilung 2. Lepidoptera. Rhopalocera Reise Fregatte Novara
- ↑ Evans, W.H. 1957. A revision of the Arhopala group of oriental lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 5(3): 85–141
- ↑ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
External links
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Wikispecies has information related to Flos chinensis.
- "Flos Doherty, 1889" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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