Zizeeria karsandra
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Zizeeria karsandra, the dark grass blue,[1] is a small butterfly first described by Frederic Moore in 1865. It is found from the southern Mediterranean, in a broad band to India,[1] Sri Lanka, the Andaman and Nicobar islands, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia,[2] Yunnan, 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
Frederic 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 the ant Tapinoma melanocephalum)
- Amaranthus tricolor
- Amaranthus viridis
- Melilotus indica
- Medicago sativa
- Zornia diphylla
- Trifolium alexandrinum
- Glinus lotoides
- Tribulus cistoides
- Tribulus terrestris
Gallery
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Upperside (male)
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Upperside (female)
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In Hyderabad, India
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See also
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References
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- ↑ <templatestyles src="smallcaps/styles.css"/>Parsons, M. (1999). The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea. Academic Press. Template:ISBN
- ↑ <templatestyles src="smallcaps/styles.css"/>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.
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- Polyommatini
- Butterflies of Asia
- Butterflies of Oceania
- Butterflies of Australia
- Butterflies of Indochina
- Butterflies of Indonesia
- Butterflies of Malaysia
- Lepidoptera of New Guinea
- Lepidoptera of the Philippines
- Lepidoptera of Thailand
- Insects of the Middle East
- Insects of Myanmar
- Butterflies described in 1865
- Taxa named by Frederic Moore