Arhopala bazalus — The Life Data

Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Lycaenidae/Arhopala

At a glance

Occurrence records511

Data sources6

Biological traits0

DNA specimens2

eDNA detections0

Sources6 archives

Databases and archives Arhopala bazalus's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation6 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility511 records↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics2 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗

On this page3 sections

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NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Occurrence & distributionGBIF511 records

DNA & barcodingBOLD2 specimens

01Narrative

Arhopala bazalus, the powdered oakblue, is a lycaenid or blue butterfly first described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1852. It is found in Myanmar, mainland China, India (Assam, kerala and Sikkim), Indochina, Japan, the Philippines, and Taiwan. In [[Tokyo]], Japan Underside of a male in Japan Topside of subspecies ''A. b. turbata'' in Taiwan

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

No structured trait data for this taxon yet.

05DNA & barcoding2 specimens

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Arhopala bazalus has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens2

BINs2

Marker genes1

Countries1

Marker genes sequenced

★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.

COI-5P

animal barcode

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type511 records

Wild obs. + sensor486

Museum / vouchered25

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO1 196 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy68% within 1 km

≤100 m 184≤1 km 104≤10 km 47>10 km 90

425 georeferenced · 61 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor486

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy10% within 1 km

≤1 km 1≤10 km 6>10 km 3

10 georeferenced · 15 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence25

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions2 of 4 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Chiba, JP	10
Cambridge, US	4
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record	4
Natural History Museum, Tribhuvan Universitylocation not on record	2

4 institutions · 20 of 25 vouchered records shown · 5 without an institution code