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Charana de Nicéville, 1890

Mandarin Blues
Charana de Nicéville, 1890; in Marshal & de Nicéville, Butts India Burmah Ceylon 3: 19, 401, TS: Myrina mandarius Hewitson
Charana (Iolaini) ; Eliot, 1973, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6) : 437

Charana mandarinus (Hewitson, 1863)

Sikkim - Assam, Burma. See [About maps] Mandarin Blue
Myrina mandarinus Hewitson, 1863; Ill. diurn. Lep. Lycaenidae (1): 28, pl. 11, f. 6-7, TL: Sylhet
Charana mandarinus ; [BIR, 346]
Tajuria mandarinus ; [EBW]
Charana mandarina ; [MRS, 643]

Larva on Loranthus spp. [MRS]

C. m. mandarinus

Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, Burma, Thailand Charana mandarina mandarina ; [BOR, 607]

C. m. splendida Moulton, 1911

Borneo, Peninsular Malaya, ?Sumatra Charana splendida Moulton, 1911; J. Straits Brch. R. Asiat. Soc. 60 (1911) : 155, f. 3
Charana mandarina splendida ; [BOR, 607 (note)]

?C. m. splendens

Charana mandarina splendens ; [BMP: 317, pl. 48, f. 17-18]

Charana cepheis de Nicéville, 1894²

Assam. See [About maps] Cachar Mandarin Blue
cepheis de Nicéville, 1894²; J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 63 Pt.II (1) : 40, TL: Cachar
Charana cepheis ; [BIR, 347]; [BOR, 607]

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References:

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[BIR]

Wynter-Blyth, M. A., 1957; Butterflies of the Indian Region; (1982 Reprint)

[BMP]

Eliot (Ed.), Corbet & Pendlebury, 1992; The Butterflies of The Malay Peninsula; 4th edition; ISBN 983-9681-05-2

[BOR]

D'Abrera, B., 1982, 1985, 1986; Butterflies of the Oriental Region, Part I-III

[EBW]

Smart, Paul, 1976; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World; ISBN 0 600 31381 6

[MRS]

Chou Io (Ed.); Monographia Rhopalocerum Sinensium, 1-2

[²]

This may require parentheses or not. I don't have the necessary information for this taxon.

Some related literature:

de Nicéville, 1894

On new and little-known butterflies from the Indo-Malayan region J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 63 Pt.II (1) : 1-59, pl. 1-5

Eliot, 1973

The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative Arrangement Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6) : 373-505, 162fgs, pl. 1-6

Hewitson, 1863

Illustrations of diurnal Lepidoptera. Lycaenidae Ill. diurn. Lep. Lycaenidae (1): 1-36,37*, pl. 1-16 (1863), (2): 37-76, pl. 17-30 (1865), (3): 77-114, pl. 31-46 (1867), (4): 115-136,14a-h, pl. 47-54,3a-c, (Suppl.) 1-16, pl. 1-5 (1869), (5): 137-150,151*, pl. 55-59, (Suppl.) pl. 6 (1873), (6): 151-184,185*, pl. 60-73 (1874), (7): 185-208,209*, pl. 74-83 (1877), (8): 209-228, pl. 84-85,88-92, (Suppl.) 17-47, pl. 1a-b,3a-b,4a,5a-b,7-8 (1878)

Moulton, 1911

A List of the Butterflies of Borneo with Descriptions of new Species (3) J. Straits Brch. R. Asiat. Soc. 60 (1911) : 73-177, pl. 1

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