''Flos anniella'' or darkie plushblue, 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

William Chapman Hewitson William Chapman Hewitson (9 January 1806, in Newcastle upon Tyne – 28 May 1878, in Oatlands Park, Surrey) was a British naturalist. A wealthy collector, Hewitson was particularly devoted to Coleoptera (beetles) and Lepidoptera (butterflies a ...

in 1862. It is found in the

Indomalayan realm The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Ind ...

. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde'' 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175.

Subspecies

*''Flos anniella anniella'' (Singapore, Peninsular Malaya, southern Thailand, Sumatra, Borneo) *''Flos anniella artegal'' Doherty, 1889 (central Burma to northern Thailand, Mergui) *''Flos anniella malangana'' (Toxopeus, 1929) (Java)

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External links

''Flos''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' {{Taxonbar, from=Q20459269 Flos Butterflies described in 1862