Flos areste

Flos areste, the tailless plushblue,^[2]^[3] is a small butterfly found in the Indomalayan region that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

Range[edit]

The butterfly occurs in India from Sikkim to Assam and the northern and southern Shan states Burma, Thailand to Peninsular Malaya and China (Zhejiang, Guangdong). ^[4] ^[5]

In 1932, William Harry Evans reported that the species was rare.^[4]

^ Hewitson, 1862 Specimen of a Catalogue of Lycaenidae in the British Museum
^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Amblypodia areste". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 20, 2018.
^ "Flos areste (Hewitson, 1862)" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
^ ^a ^b Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 272, ser no H49.79.
^ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9

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. 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.

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