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''Cupha arias'' is an Indomalayan species of
heliconiine The Heliconiinae, commonly called heliconians or longwings, are a subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies (family Nymphalidae). They can be divided into 45–50 genera and were sometimes treated as a separate family Heliconiidae within the Pa ...
butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...
."''Cupha'' Billberg, 1820"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''


Subspecies

*''C. a. arias'' (North Philippines) *''C. a. dapatana'' Grose-Smith, 1887 (South Philippines) *''C. a. cacina'' Fruhstorfer, 1912 (Palawan, Balabac, Borneo) *''C. a. muna'' Fruhstorfer, 1898 (Muna Island) *''C. a. celebensis'' Fruhstorfer, 1900 (Sulawesi) *''C. a. sangirica'' Fruhstorfer, 1912 (Sangihe, Talaud)


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images representing ''Cupha arias''
at Encyclopedia of Life Vagrantini Butterflies described in 1867 Taxa named by Baron Cajetan von Felder Taxa named by Rudolf Felder Butterflies of Asia {{Heliconiinae-stub