Nacaduba cyanea

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Nacaduba cyanea
Green-banded line-blue (Nacaduba cyanea arinia) Daintree.jpg
Daintree Rainforest, Queensland
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Nacaduba
Species:
N. cyanea
Binomial name
Nacaduba cyanea
(Cramer, [1775]) [1]
Subspecies

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Synonyms
  • Papilio cyaneaCramer, [1775]
  • Damis epicoritusBoisduval, 1832
  • Thysonotis cyanea arinidesFruhstorfer, 1915
  • Lycaena (Thysonotis) sperchiusC. & R. Felder, 1860
  • Thysonotis sperchiusC. & R. Felder, [1865]
  • Lycaena pindusC. & R. Felder, [1865]
  • Cupido ariniaOberthür, 1878
  • Danis albastolaLucas, 1889
  • Plebeius illustrisRöber, 1886
  • Thysonotis chromiaDruce, 1891
  • Thysonotis smaragdusDruce & Bethune-Baker, 1893
  • Thysonotis hamilcarGrose-Smith, 1894
  • Thysonotis hamilcar ab. intermediusRibbe, 1899
  • Thysonotis hamilcar var. pseudochromiaRibbe, 1899
  • Thysonotis rosselanaBethune-Baker, 1908

Nacaduba cyanea, the tailed green-banded line-blue, is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae, and formerly considered a member of the genus Danis . It is found in the Indonesia (Irian Jaya, Maluku), Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Australia (Queensland). [2]

The wingspan is about 30 mm. Adult males are blue with a dark brown wing margin, with a pale blue to white patch on the hindwing. Females are white, with a black border around the wings and a row of blue-edged black spots. [3]

The larvae feed on Entada phaseoloides and Entada scandens . They are bright green, with pale brown heads. The larvae are attended to by ants of the genus Anonychomyrma . Pupation takes place in a brown pupa with dark markings.

Subspecies

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