Misplaced Pages

Speckled line blue
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Catopyrops
Species:	C. florinda
Binomial name
Catopyrops florinda (Butler, 1877)

Catopyrops florinda, the speckled line blue, is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1877. It is found in the Australasian realm.

Subspecies

• C. f. florinda Loyalty Islands
• C. f. estrella (Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914) Australia (Darwin, Northern Territory, Cooktown, Queensland and New South Wales)
• C. f. parva Tite, 1963 Timor, Kissar, Wetar, Letti

Biology

The larva feeds on Celtis sinensis, Trema cannabina and Caesalpinia bonduc.

References

1. . Butler, A,G. , 1877 On a Collection of Lepidoptera obtained by the Rev. S. J. Whitmee from Lifu (Loyalty Group), with Descriptions of new Species Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 20 (118) : 348-359
2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175.

External links

• "Catopyrops Toxopeus, 1929" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

• v
• t
• e

• Catopyrops
• Butterflies described in 1877
• Polyommatini stubs