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 (Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand)
- Loxura cassiopeia amatica <small>Fruhstorfer, 1912</small> (northern Borneo, Palawan)
- Loxura cassiopeia numana <small>Fruhstorfer, 1912</small> (western Sumatra)
- Loxura cassiopeia fuscicaudata <small>Fruhstorfer, 1912</small> (Nias)
- Loxura cassiopeia batunensis <small>Fruhstorfer, 1913</small> (Batu)
- Loxura cassiopeia yilma <small>Fruhstorfer, 1926</small> (Mindanao)
- Loxura cassiopeia ptesia <small>Riley, 1945</small> (Mentawi)
- Loxura cassiopeia takioi <small>Hayashi, 1976</small> (Palawan)
- Loxura cassiopeia owadai <small>Hayashi, 1976</small> (Mindanao)
References
External links
- Loxura at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms