Arhopala staudingeri is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.
Both sexes are very similar, above blackish-brown, the suffused with a deep dark blue reflection, the whole anal third of the hindwing purely bone-coloured, with 3 slightly contiguous transverse spots.
Under surface ochreous-yellow, towards the hind-margin paler, before the marginal area a dark transverse line, in the hindwing an angular one; anal area as above.
[3] The nominotypical subspecies is distributed on Bohol, Leyte, Panaon, Mindanao and Samar islands.
The subspecies A. s. castagnedai is on Luzon and Marinduque islands.