Loxura cassiopeia


Loxura cassiopeia is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.It was described by William Lucas Distant in 1884. It is found in the Indomalayan realm. It differs from Loxura atymnus by the invariably longer tails not being powdered with black

Subspecies

Loxura cassiopeia cassiopeia Loxura cassiopeia amatica Fruhstorfer, 1912 Loxura cassiopeia numana Fruhstorfer, 1912 Loxura cassiopeia fuscicaudata Fruhstorfer, 1912 Loxura cassiopeia batunensis Fruhstorfer, 1913 Loxura cassiopeia yilma Fruhstorfer, 1926 Loxura cassiopeia ptesia Riley, 1945 Loxura cassiopeia takioi Hayashi, 1976 Loxura cassiopeia owadai Hayashi, 1976