Chliaria kina

Blue tit
	At Samsing in Darjeeling district of West Bengal, India
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Chliaria (disputed)
Species:	C. kina
Binomial name
	Chliaria kina; (Hewitson, 1869)
Synonyms
	Hypolycaena kina Hewitson, 1869 (but see text);

The blue tit is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia. It was traditionally called Chliaria kina^[1] but the genus Chliaria is merged into Hypolycaena by many recent authors.

^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Chliaria kina". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 19 April 2018.

[LepIndex-1] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Chliaria kina". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 19 April 2018.

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