Surendra florimel, the Eastern acacia blue a species of lycaenid or hairstreak butterfly found in South-East Asia.
Range Southern Burma, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Nias and Borneo.Seki Y. Butterflies of Borneo, Volume 2, No. 1, 1991.Eliot J.N., in The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula, 4th Edition.
Description In the male, the wings above are deep shining purplish blue, with a black apical border on the forewing, and on the hindwing both the costal and inner margins are broadly black bordered. The female is plain brown, with diffuse darker borders. The underside is brown, with a darker brown band across the wing from apex to the middle of the dorsum.
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