''Jamides abdul'' is a
butterfly
Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...
in the family
Lycaenidae
Lycaenidae is the second-largest family (biology), 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 ...
. It was described by
William Lucas Distant
William Lucas Distant (12 November 1845 Rotherhithe – 4 February 1922 Wanstead) was an English entomologist.
Biography Early years
Distant was born in Rotherhithe, the son of whaling captain Alexander Distantspecies:B.R. Subba Rao, Rao, B.R ...
in 1886. 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
*''Jamides abdul abdul'' (Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Thailand)
*''Jamides abdul hamid''
(Fruhstorfer, 1916) (Nias)
*''Jamides abdul daonides''
(Röber, 1897) (Java)
*''Jamides abdul daones''
(Druce, 1896) (Borneo)
*''Jamides abdul pemanggilensis''
Eliot, 1978 (Pulau Pemanggil)
*''Jamides abdul mayaangelae''
Takanami, 1992 (Simeulue Islands)
References
External links
''Jamides''at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
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Jamides
Butterflies described in 1886