Flos chinensis

Flos chinensis
	From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel, Switzerland
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Flos
Species:	F. chinensis
Binomial name
	Flos chinensis; (C. Felder & R. Felder, [1865])[1]
Synonyms
	Arhopala chinensis C. & R. Felder, [1865]; Nilasera moelleri de Nicéville, 1883; Satadra lazula Moore, 1884; Arhopala asoka vaya Fruhstorfer, 1914;

Flos chinensis, the Chinese plushblue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Cajetan and Rudolf Felder in 1865. It is found in the Indomalayan realm (Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, southwest China to Shanghai).[2]

References

C. & R. Felder, [1865] Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Behilfen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Band 2. Abtheilung 2. Lepidoptera. Rhopalocera Reise Fregatte Novara
Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9

"Flos Doherty, 1889" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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