| Purple leaf blue | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Amblypodia |
| Species: | A. anita |
| Binomial name | |
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Amblypodia anita Moore,1862 |
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| Synonyms | |
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Horsfieldia anita |
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Horsfieldia anita
Amblypodia anita, the purple leaf blue or leaf blue, is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in South Asia and Southeast Asia.Ceylon, Peninsular India - Bombay, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa,Bihar, Bengal, Assam,- Burma, Malaysia, Java