Ticherra acte

Blue Imperial
Ticheera acte Upperside right, underside left. From Seitz
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Ticherra de Nicéville, 1887
Species:	T. acte
Binomial name
Ticherra acte (Moore, 1857)
Synonyms
Myrina acte Moore, [1858] Myrina symira Hewitson, 1876 Ticherra acte acte f. idina Fruhstorfer, 1912 Biduanda staudingeri Druce, 1895

The Blue Imperial (Ticherra acte) is a small butterfly found in India and Southeast Asia that belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues family. Its genus Ticherra is monotypic.

Subspecies

• Ticherra acte acte (Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia)
• Ticherra acte liviana Fruhstorfer, 1912 (southern Burma, Peninsular Malaya, Thailand, Sumatra)
• Ticherra acte staudingeri (Druce, 1895) (Borneo)
• Ticherra acte retracta Cowan, 1967 (Hainan)

See also

• List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)

References

• Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
• Gaonkar, Harish (1996). Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (including Sri Lanka) - A Biodiversity Assessment of a Threatened Mountain System. Bangalore, India: Centre for Ecological Sciences.
• Gay, Thomas; Kehimkar, Isaac David; Punetha, Jagdish Chandra (1992). Common Butterflies of India. Nature Guides. Bombay, India: World Wide Fund for Nature-India by Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195631647.
• Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation.
• Kunte, Krushnamegh (2000). Butterflies of Peninsular India. India, A Lifescape. Hyderabad, India: Universities Press. ISBN 978-8173713545.
• Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329.