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).Hindwing tail short(1mm). Underside of hindwing with metallic scaling at tornus.Male shining dark blue, border 1 mm. at apex, 4 mm. elsewhere.Male forewing 22 mm.Female purple with broad borders.Seitz 150e.Evans, W.H. 1957. A revision of the Arhopala group of oriental lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 5(3): 85–141 Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
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"Flos Doherty, 1889" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms