Zizeeria karsandra
Dark grass blue | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Euarthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Zizeeria |
Species: | Z. karsandra |
Binomial name | |
Zizeeria karsandra (Moore, 1865) | |
Synonyms | |
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Zizeeria karsandra, the dark grass blue,[1] is a small butterfly found from the southern Mediterranean, in a broad band to India,[1] Sri Lanka, the Andaman and Nicobar islands, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia,[2] Indonesia, the Philippines, Arabia United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Oman, New Guinea and northern and eastern Australia.[3] It belongs to the lycaenids or blues family, and the tribe Polyommatini.[4]
Description
Moore described this species on 1865 as: "Upperside purple-brown. Underside greyish brown, exterior margins defined by a brown line: fore wing with a spot within discoidal cell, a discocellular streak, a spot above it, and a transverse discal series of six spots black, each encircled with white; a marginal and submarginal row of pale brown, white-bordered lunules: hind wing with a series of twelve black spots, and a pale discocellular streak, encircled with white ; a marginal row of pale brown, whitish-encircled spots, and a submarginal row of whitish lunules: cilia greyish brown."[5][6]
Food plants
The recorded food plants include:[7]
- Zornia diphylla
- Amaranthus viridis (in association with ant Tapinoma melanocephalum)
- Amaranthus tricolor
- Amaranthus viridis
- Melilotus indica
- Medicago sativa
- Zornia diphylla
- Trifolium alexandrinu
- Glinus lotoides
- Tribulus cistoides
- Tribulus terrestris
Gallery
- Upperside (male)
- Upperside (female)
- In Hyderabad, India
See also
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References
- 1 2 R.K., Varshney; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. p. 135. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9.
- ↑ Fleming, W.A., 1975 Butterflies of West Malaysia & Singapore ISBN 0-900848-71-5
- ↑ Parsons, M., 1999. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea Academic Press, ISBN 0-12-545555-0
- ↑ Eliot, J.N. 1973: The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative arrangement. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), entomology, 28: 371-505.
- ↑
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a work now in the public domain: Moore, Frederic (1865). "List of diurnal Lepidoptera collected by Capt. A.M. Lang in the N. W. Himalayas". Proceedings of the general meetings for scientific business of the Zoological Society of London. 1865 (2): 505. Retrieved 10 May 2018. - ↑ Swinhoe, Charles (1905–1910). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. VII. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 258–260.
- ↑ Markku Savela, "Zizeeria Chapman, 1910" Lepidoptera and some other life forms. Accessed 12 November 2016.
External links
- Asahi Correctly determined photos of Z. karsandra from the Philippines