title: Rachana mioae
text: # Rachana mioae
  
  Rachana mioae is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae first described by Hisakazu Hayashi in 1978. Eliotia mioae H. Hayashi, 1978 was moved to Rachana, because Eliotia is the junior homonym of a genus of marine animals (nudibranchs, family: Madrellidae) described in 1909.
  
  Forewing length: 16–20 mm. It is endemic to the Philippines. It is uncommon and distributed on the islands of Mindanao and Leyte.
  
  