Poritia plateni is an Indomalayan butterfly found on Sumatra, Borneo, Peninsular Thailand and in the Philippines that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.Poritia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms Above the male is somewhat like sumatrae (154 h), but beneath both wings are white with a rusty-red distal margin and all over covered with black dotsSeitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175.

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