Monodontides apona is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found on Mindanao in the Philippines.

Monodontides apona
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Monodontides
Species:
M. apona
Binomial name
Monodontides apona
Synonyms
  • Cyaniris dilectus apona Fruhstorfer, 1910
  • Lycaenopsis apona
  • Celastrina (Udara) dilecta (?) apona (Fruhstorfer) Toxopeus, 1928

References edit

  1. ^ "Monodontides Toxopeus, 1927" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  • Eliot, J. N. and Kawazoe, A., 1983. Blue Butterflies of the Lycaenopsis Group: 1-309, 6 pls. London
  • Fruhstorfer, H., 1910. Neue Cyaniris-Rassen und Übersicht der bekannten Arten. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 71 (1909): 282-305.
  • Fruhstorfer, H., 1917. Revision der Lycaenidengattung Lycaenopsis. Arch. Naturgesch. 82 (A) (1) (1916): 1-42, 2 pls.
  • Toxopeus, 1927b-1928: Eine Revision der javanischen, zu Lycaenopsis und verwandten Genera gehörigen Arten. Tijdschrift Voor Entomologie 70: 232-302, 1pl., 27 figs; ibid. 71: 179-265, 1 pl., 29 figs.