Zizeeria karsandra
| Dark grass blue | |
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| At Jayanti in Buxa Tiger Reserve in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, India | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| 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, is a small butterfly found from the southern Mediterranean, in a broad band to India, Sri Lanka, the Andaman and Nicobar islands, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia,[1] Indonesia, the Philippines, Arabia United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Oman, New Guinea and northern and eastern Australia.[2] It belongs to the lycaenids or blues family, and the tribe Polyommatini.[3]
Food plants
The recorded food plants include:[4]
- 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
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At Jayanti in Buxa Tiger Reserve in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal
See also
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References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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
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