Allotinus corbeti

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| taxon = Allotinus corbeti

| authority = Eliot, 1956

| synonyms = *Allotinus felderi corbeti Eliot; Eliot, 1967

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Allotinus corbeti is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.{{Cite web |title=Allotinus corbeti Eliot, 1956 |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/1923511 |access-date=2024-11-16 |website=GBIF |language=en}} It was described by John Nevill Eliot in 1956. It is found in Thailand,{{Cite journal |last=Eliot |first=J. N. |date=1986 |title=A Review of the Miletini (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/5942 |journal=Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology |volume=53 |pages=1–105 |via=the Biodiversity Heritage Library}} Laos,{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |date=August 29, 2017 |title=Allotinus corbeti Eliot, 1956 |url=https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/lycaenidae/miletinae/allotinus/#corbeti |accessdate=February 4, 2020 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms}}{{Self-published source inline|date=November 2024|certain=y}} Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and on Borneo, Sumatra and Mindanao.

It is named in honor of Dr. A. S. Corbet, to whom Eliot had sent the specimen before World War II, "in admiration of his researches on Malayan butterflies and in memory of his unfailing kindness and encouragement."{{Cite journal |last=Elliot |first=J. N. |date=1956 |title=New and little known Rhopalocera from the Oriental region |url=https://archive.org/details/bulletin-raffles-museum-27-032-038/ |journal=The Bulletin of the Raffles Museum |via=the Internet Archive}} Corbet had initially identified it as Allotinus dilutus (now Allotinus unicolor dilutus), presumably on the basis of its small size.