Flos fulgida

Flos fulgida, the shining plushblue, is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm, including India. The species was first described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1863.^[2][3]

Shining plushblue
F. f. singhapura from the Courvoisier Collection, Basel, Switzerland
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Flos
Species:	F. fulgida
Binomial name
Flos fulgida (Hewitson, 1863[1]
Synonyms
Arhopala fulgida (Hewitson, 1863) Amblypodia fulgida

Close wing position of Flos fulgida (Hewitson, (1863)) – Shining Plushblue

Subspecies

• F. f. fulgida Sikkim, Assam – Myanmar, Thailand, Laos
• F. f. singhapura (Distant, 1885) Peninsular Malaya, Singapore, Sumatra, Java, Borneo
• F. f. zilana (Fruhstorfer, 1900) Philippines (Basilan, Mindoro)