Freyeria putli

Eastern grass jewel
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Freyeria
Species:	F. putli
Binomial name
Freyeria putli (Kollar 1844) [1]
Synonyms
Lycaena putliKollar, [1844] Chilades putli Zizeeria putli Freyeria trochilus putli

Freyeria putli, the eastern grass jewel or small grass jewel, ^[2] or oriental grass jewel ^[3] is a small butterfly found in Ceylon, Myanmar, India and Australia that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. ^{[2] [4] [5]}

Description

For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

Frederic Moore (1880) gives a detailed description:

Male. Upperside violet-brown : hindwing with indistinct marginal pale-bordered black spots. Cilia cinereous-white. Underside cinereous-brown : forewing with a white-bordered brown discocellular spot, a transverse discal and a submarginal row of similar spots : hindwing with a white-bordered black costal spot, four transverse subbasal spots and one near base of abdominal margin; a white-bordered brown discocellular spot and a transverse discal row of similar spots, a marginal row of six prominent black conical spots speckled with metallic-green, the outer one at each end less distinct, each bordered by ochreous-yellow and above by a double white lunular line. Female. Upperside similar, the marginal spots on hindwiag slightly bordered with ochreous; markings of underside more distinct.

—  Frederic Moore, The Lepidoptera of Ceylon. Vol. I ^[6]

See also

• List of butterflies of India
• List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)

References

1. freyeria at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
2. Varshney, R.; Smetacek, P. A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India (2015 ed.). New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal and Indinov Publishing. p. 143.
3. "Freyeria-putli Kollar, 1844 – Oriental Grass Jewel". Butterflies of India.
4. Hügel, Carl Alexander Anselm Baron von (1840). Kaschmir und das Reich der Siek. Stuttgart, Hallberger. p. 422.
5. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain : Swinhoe, Charles (1905–1910). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. VII. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. p. 275.
6. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain : Moore, Frederic (1880). The Lepidoptera of Ceylon. Vol. I. London: L. Reeve & co. pp. 77–78.