Flos asoka

Species of butterfly

Flos asoka

From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel, Switzerland
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Flos
Species:	F. asoka
Binomial name
*Flos asoka* de Nicéville, [1884]^[1]
Synonyms
Nilasera asoka de Nicéville, [1884] Satadra chola Moore, 1884 Arhopala asoka vaya Fruhstorfer, 1914

Flos asoka or Spangled Plushblue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Lionel de Nicéville in 1884. It is found in the Indomalayan realm (Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Thailand - South China and Hong Kong).^[2]

References

^ de Nicéville, [1884] On new and little known Rhopalocera from the Indian Region Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 52 Pt. II (2/4): 65-91, pl. 1, 9-10
^ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9