Amblypodia dodonaea

Taxobox
name = Pale Himalayan Oakblue

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image_caption ="Amblypodia dodonaea" Male on left, the always larger female on the right
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
superfamilia = Papilionoidea
familia = Lycaenidae
genus = "Amblypodia"
species = "A. dodonaea"
binomial = "Amblypodia dodonaea"
binomial_authority = (Hewitson, 1865)

The Pale Himalayan Oakblue ("Amblypodia dodonaea") [http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/lepindex/detail.dsml?TaxonNo=195033.0&UserID=&UserName=&&listPageURL=list%2edsml%3fSCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26sort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3ddodon%26recLimit%3d30&searchPageURL=index%2edsml%3fsort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3ddodon%26recLimit%3d30 Card for "dodonaea" in LepIndex. Accessed 16 Jun 2007.] ] is a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues family.

Range

The butterfly occurs in India from Chitral to Kumaon.Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no H49.50, pp 266.]

tatus

Common.

Cited references

ee also

*Lycaenidae
*List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)

References

* Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Pale Himalayan Oakblues Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex.
* Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India
* Haribal, Meena (1994) Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and their Natural History.
* Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.