Udara

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Udara
Subgenera (5): Penudara – Perivaga – Selmanix – Udara – Vaga
Overview of species (39)

U. aemulus – U. akasa – U. albocaerulea – U. antonia – U. aristinus – U. aristius – U. blackburni – U. camenae – U. cardia – U. ceyx – U. coalita – U. cybele – U. cyma – U. davenporti – U. dilecta – U. dilectissima – U. drucei – U. etsuzoi – U. kodama – U. laetitia – U. lanka – U. mankowariensis – U. masinissa – U. meeki – U. nishiyamai – U. oviana – U. owgarra – U. placidula – U. pullus – U. renevieri – U. rona – U. santotomasana – U. selma – U. serangana – U. sibatanii – U. singalensis – U. toxopeusi – U. tyotaroi – U. wilemani
Name

Udara Toxopeus, 1928. [As subgenus of Celastrina Tutt]

Type species: Polyommatus dilectus Moore, 1879.
Synonymy

Akasinula Toxopeus, 1928: 181. [As subgenus of Celastrina Tutt]. Synonymised by Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983: 83.

References

Braby, M.F.; Müller, C.J. 2013 (Online) 2014 (Print): Taxonomy of the genus Udara (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) in New Caledonia and the wet tropics of Australia, with a review of butterfly endemism in these regions. Austral entomology, 53(1): 89–98. DOI: 10.1111/aen.12051 Reference page.
Eliot, J. N. & Kawazoé, A. 1983. Blue butterflies of the Lycaenopsis group. British Museum (Natural History), London. ISBN 0-565-00860-9 Reference page.
Hirowatari, T. 1992. A generic classification of the tribe Polyommatini of the Oriental and Australian regions (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Polyommatinae). Bulletin of the University of Osaka Prefecture (B) 44 (Suppl.) PDF. Reference page.
Müller, C. J., 2002. New butterfly taxa from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae and Lycaenidae). Australian Entomologist 29 (1): 29–36.

Reference page.

Udara is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species are found in the Indomalayan and the Australasian realms.
Male Udara dilecta from Thailand, type species of the genus

Species

Subgenus Udara Toxopeus, 1922
Udara akasa (Horsfield, 1828) - white hedge blue (India)
Udara aristinus (Fruhstorfer, 1917)
Udara aristius (Fruhstorfer, 1910)
Udara camenae (de Nicéville, [1895])
Udara cardia (Felder, 1860)
Udara coalita (de Nicéville, 1891)
Udara cyma (Toxopeus, 1927)
Udara dilectissima (Druce, 1895)
Udara dilecta (Moore, 1879) (India, China, Malay Peninsula)
Udara drucei (Bethune-Baker, 1906)
Udara etsuzoi Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983
Udara lanka Moore, 1877 - Ceylon hedge blue (Sri Lanka)
Udara masinissa (Fruhstorfer, 1910)
Udara placidula (Druce, 1895)
Udara rona (Grose-Smith, 1894)
Udara serangana Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983
Udara singalensis (R. Felder, 1868)
Udara tenella (Miskin, 1891)
Udara toxopeusi (Corbet, 1937)
Subgenus Selmanix Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983
Udara aemulus Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983
Udara ceyx (de Nicéville, [1893])
Udara nishiyamai Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983
Udara santotomasana Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983
Udara selma (Druce, 1895)
Udara wilemani Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983
Subgenus Penudara Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983
Udara albocaerulea (Moore, 1879)
Udara oviana (Fruhstorfer, 1917)
Udara tyotaroi Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983
Subgenus Perivaga
Udara antonia Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983
Udara cybele Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983
Udara davenporti (Parsons, 1986)
Udara laetitia Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983
Udara manokwariensis (Joicey, Noakes & Talbot, 1915)
Udara meeki (Bethune-Baker, 1906)
Udara owgarra (Bethune-Baker, 1906)
Udara pullus (Joicey & Talbot, 1916)
Udara sibatanii Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983
Subgenus Vaga
Udara blackburnii (Tuely, 1878) - Hawaiian blue (Hawaii)[1]

References
Wikispecies has information related to Many Udara species and subspecies.

"Udara Toxopeus, 1928" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms

"Hawaiian Blue, Blackburn's Blue Udara blackburni (Tuely, 1878)". Butterflies and Moths of North America. Archived from the original on 2012-10-29. Retrieved 2009-11-29.