Rachana jalindra

Rachana jalindra, the banded royal,^[1][2] is a lycaenid or blue butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm. The species was first described by Thomas Horsfield in 1829.^[1][2]

Banded royal
Male
From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Rachana
Species:	R. jalindra
Binomial name
Rachana jalindra (Horsfield, 1829)[1]
Synonyms
Amblypodia jalindra Horsfield, [1829] Myrina jalindra Tajuria jalindra Charana jalindra Eliotia jalindra Sithon thymbraeus Geyer, 1832 Sithon jalindra indra Moore, [1884] Tajuria jalindra macanita Fruhstorfer, 1912 Myrina burbona Hewitson, 1878 Tajuria jalindra mingawa Fruhstorfer, 1914 Tajuria jalindra gamtara Fruhstorfer, 1912 Tajuria jalindra degenerata Fruhstorfer, 1897 Sithon jalindra var. palawandra Staudinger, 1889 Myrina tarpina Hewitson, 1878 Rachana jalindra australis Schröder & Treadaway, 1990

Subspecies

• Rachana jalindra jalindra (Java)
• Rachana jalindra indra (Moore, [1884]) (Nepal, Sikkim to Thailand and Myanmar)
• Rachana jalindra macanita (Fruhstorfer, 1912) (southern India)
• Rachana jalindra burbona (Hewitson, 1878) (Sumatra, Peninsular Malaya)
• Rachana jalindra mingawa (Fruhstorfer, 1914) (south-western Borneo)
• Rachana jalindra gamtara (Fruhstorfer, 1912) (northern Borneo)
• Rachana jalindra degenerata (Fruhstorfer, 1897) (Nias)
• Rachana jalindra palawandra (Staudinger, 1889) (Palawan)
• Rachana jalindra tarpina (Hewitson, 1878) (Andamans)
• Rachana jalindra maganda Takanami, 1982
• Rachana jalindra shiraishii Takanami, 1984 (Philippines)
• Rachana jalindra mindorensis (Schröder & Treadaway, 1985)
• Rachana jalindra balabacensis (Schröder & Treadaway, 1986)
• Rachana jalindra obsoleta (Schröder & Treadaway, 1993)