''Curetis santana'' is a species of

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises ...

belonging to the family

Lycaenidae 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 butterfly ...

. It was described by

Frederic Moore Frederic Moore FZS (13 May 1830 – 10 May 1907) was a British entomologist and illustrator. He produced six volumes of ''Lepidoptera Indica'' and a catalogue of the birds in the collection of the East India Company. It has been said that Mo ...

in 1857. It is found in

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consistin ...

(Myanmar, Indochina, Peninsular Malaya, Thailand, Sumatra, Bangka and Borneo).

Subspecies

*''Curetis santana santana'' (Java) *''Curetis santana ge'' Fruhstorfer, 1900 (Nias) *''Curetis santana malayica'' (C. Felder & R. Felder,

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– Malayan sunbeam"''Curetis santana malayica'' Malayan Sunbeam"
''Butterfly Circle''. Retrieved January 15, 2017. (northern Myanmar, Indochina to Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, Sumatra, Bangka, Borneo)

References

External links

* Butterflies of Asia santana Butterflies described in 1857 Taxa named by Frederic Moore {{Lycaenidae-stub