Apporasa [SEP] parent taxon
Apporasa
Apporasa is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae, the blues. The genus is monotypic containing only Apporasa atkinsoni, the crenulate oakblue. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.
Description.
The following description is taken from Charles Thomas Bingham's "Fauna of British India, Butterflies", vol 2, (1907).
Description Male.
Upperside, forewings and hindwings: medially and obliquely crossed by a very broad pure white band that is broadly edged on its inner and outer margins by dark
Falcate oakblue, "Mahathala ameria" (Hewitson, 1862) (L44.1)
Other subfamilies Genus "Apporasa" - crenulate oakblue.
- Crenulate oakblue, "Apporasa atkinsoni" (Hewitson, 1869) previously "Mahathala atkinsoni" Hewitson (L44.2)
Other subfamilies Genus "Amblypodia" - oakblues.
- Tytler's rosy oakblue, "Amblypodia suffusa" Tytler, 1915 (L45.4)
- Sylhet oakblue, "Amblypodia silhetensis" Hewitson, 1862 (L45.5)
- Singapore oakblue, "Amblypodia yendava" Grose-