| Acacia blue | |
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| In North Sulawesi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Surendra |
| Species: | S. vivarna |
| Binomial name | |
| Surendra vivarna (Horsfield, 1829) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Surendra vivarna, the acacia blue, [1] [2] is a species of lycaenid or hairstreak butterfly found in Sri Lanka, India [1] and the Indonesian islands as far as Sulawesi. [3] [2]
Its range is similar to that of its genus, Surendra , except it is not recorded from China or the Philippines proper (where it is replaced by S. maniliana ), but from Balabac, Palawan and the Calamian Islands. [4] [2]
Upperside: both wings rather intense deep blue: primaries with the costa broadly, posterior margin more broadly, apex still more broadly black ; secondaries with the blue limited to just over the median area, the rest of the wings black. Tails two, black, the longer one white-tipped. Underside : both wings very dark greyish brown: primaries with an obscure dark dot near the centre of the cell and a small dash closing it, costa with three dark dots; transverse blackish line curved irregularly and scalloped from the costa to the submedian nervure, a submarginal row of blackish dots, margin obscurely dark, internal area quite pale: secondaries with a small white spot about one-third along the costal nervure, below which is an obscure dark short dash in the cell; from two-thirds along the costa to the middle of the abdominal margin is a narrow, indefinite, obscure band of dark shading edged externally and sharply with white, a submarginal row of dark spots forming an almost lunular line; on each side of the long tail is a slight grey scaling. Upperside: both wings entirely dark brown. Underside as in the male, but decidedly paler.
Fabaceae ( Acacia , Albizia , Paraserianthes ) and it is facultatively attended by various ants.
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain : Bethune-Baker, George Thomas (1903). A Revision of the Amblypodia Group of Butterflies of the Family Lycaenidae. p. 6.
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