Arhopala aedias yendava, the Singapore oakblue,Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Amblypodia. is a subspecies of Arhopala aedias a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.
This beautiful species is above in both sexes dark lilac, the female with a black distal margin of an average width of 4 mm. The postmedian band of the forewdng is here also in the centre very much interrupted, but the two ends of the interruption are nevertheless contiguous, which is not the case in nominate aedias.Seitz, A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln
Range The butterfly occurs in India from Sikkim onto Myanmar.
Status Rare.
See also List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)
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