Hypochlorosis ancharia
Hypochlorosis ancharia is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found on Waigeo in Indonesia, and in the Dampier Archipelago in the north of Australia.
Description
Upperside. Male.—Cerulean blue. Anterior wing with the centre grey-white: thecostal and outer margins dark brown, widest at the apex. Posterior wing with one tail: the costal margin broadly white: the outer margin dark brown, broad, with a submarginal seriesof black spots encircled with blue.
Underside white. Anterior wing with the costal margin and apex rufous-brown: the outer margin with a series of white spots centred and bordered with brown. Posterior wing with the outer margin broadly rufous-brown: a submarginal series of conical brown spots bordered with white: the spot at the base of the tail large and black bordered with blue: the
lobe black bordered above with blue.
Female with the anterior wing white broadly bordered with dark brown: the base and anal angle irrorated with blue. Posterior wing like that of the male, except that the white of the costal margin is broader: the underside does not differ from the male.
Exp. 1 and 9/20, inch.
Subspecies
- Hypochlorosis ancharia ancharia
- Hypochlorosis ancharia tenebrosa Rothschild, 1915