Curetis saronis

Burmese sunbeam
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1883, plate XLVIII fig.1
Curetis saronis indosinica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Curetis
Species:
C. saronis
Binomial name
Curetis saronis
Moore, 1877

Curetis saronis, the Burmese sunbeam or Saronis sunbeam, is a species of butterfly belong to the lycaenid family. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.

Distribution

Eastern India. Assam. Sylhet to Myanmar (ssp.gloriosa Moore, [1884]), Thailand (ssp. indosinica Fruhstorfer, 1908), Indochina. Sumatra (ssp. sumatrana Corbet, 1937), Singapore. Pulau Rumbia. Subspecies are described from the Nicobar Islands'

Cited references

  1. 1 2 Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Curetis.
  2. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Curetis saronis​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 20, 2018.
  3. ↑ Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 253, ser no H44.2.

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