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Poritia phalena hayashii

subspecies of butterfly

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ140690858 ↗
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Poritia phalena hayashii is a subspecies of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in the Philippines (Bohol, Leyte and Mindanao). The subspecies was first described by Heinz G. Schröder and Colin G. Treadaway in 1979.

References

Schröder, H., & Treadaway, C. G., 1979: Neue Lepidoptera von den Philippinen. Entomologische Zeitschrift. 89 (24): 268–276, 4 figs.

Treadaway, Colin G., 1955: Checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands. Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Suppl. 14: 7–118.

Takanami, Yusuke & Seki, Yasuo (April 1, 2001).

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This entry incorporates text from “Poritia phalena hayashii” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.