''Jamides allectus'' 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

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 Joice ...

in 1894. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ...

(West Irian and New Ireland). Seitz, A., 1912-1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde'' 9

Subspecies

*''J. a. allectus'' (Irian Jaya) *''J. a. jobiensis'' Tite, 1960 (Jobi) *''J. a. sarmice'' (Fruhstorfer, 1916) (New Ireland)

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External links

''Jamides''
Hübner,

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at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''. Retrieved June 3, 2017. Jamides Butterflies described in 1894 Endemic fauna of New Guinea {{lycaenidae-stub