''Catopyrops rita'' is a species of butterfly belonging to the

lycaenid Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfl ...

family described by

Henley Grose-Smith Henley Grose-Smith (1833–1911) was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. Grose-Smith described many new taxa of butterflies from his own collections and those of Walter Rothschild. His collections were sold to James John Joicey ...

in 1895. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Grossschmetterlinge Erde'' 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175. It is found in the

Australasian realm The Australasian realm is a biogeographic realm that is coincident with, but not (by some definitions) the same as, the geographical region of Australasia. The realm includes Australia, the island of New Guinea (comprising Papua New Guinea an ...

and in the Indomalayan realm, crossing the

Wallace line The Wallace Line or Wallace's Line is a faunal boundary line drawn in 1859 by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and named by English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley that separates the biogeographical realms of Asia and Wallacea, a tran ...

Subspecies

*''C. r. rita'' Ambon, Timor *''C. r. bora'' Eliot, 1956 Sulawesi *''C. r. altijavana'' Toxopeus, 1930 Java

References

External links

"''Catopyrops'' Toxopeus, 1929"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' Catopyrops Butterflies described in 1895 {{Polyommatini-stub