Jamides philatus
species of butterfly
Jamides philatus, the Burmese caerulean, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Pieter Cornelius Tobias Snellen in 1877. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.
It is a polytypical, widely distributed species is in many of its forms recognizable by an almost black distal part of the wings beneath with very bright white markings contrasting with a proximal lighter and more uniformly coloured part.
Subspecies
J. p. philatus Sulawesi, Banggai, Sula
J. p. callinicus (Röber, 1886) . Ceram Male above entirely whitish without a real margin, nor any distal-marginal marking on the hindwing. Beneath the white transverse stripes are divided into streaks of about 2 mm length; before the margin of the hindwing high cucullate spots. Female greyish-blue with a broad blackish-grey margin.
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