Dacalana mio

Dacalana mio
Male upperside
Female upperside
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Dacalana
Species:	D. mio
Binomial name
Dacalana mio H. Hayashi, Schrőder & Treadaway, 1983[1]

Dacalana mio [1] [2][3]is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. Forewing length:16-18mm. It is rare species, endemic to the Philippines and found only on Mindanao & Leyte Islands.

References

1. ^ Dacalana at funet

• Hayashi, Hisakazu, Schrőder, Heinz & Treadaway, Colin G., 1983: Neue Arten und Unterarten der Gattungen Dacalana und Pratapa von den Philippinen(Insecta: Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Senckenbergiana biol.. 63(1/2): 47-59.
• Treadaway, Colin G., 1995: Checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Nachr. entomol. Ver. Apollo, Suppl. 14: 7-118.
• Takanami, Y. & Seki, Y., 2001. A synonymic list of Lycaenidae from the Philippines. Edn. 12.