Zizeeria karsandra

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Dark grass blue
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Zizeeria
Species:
Z. karsandra
Binomial name
Zizeeria karsandra
(Moore, 1865)
Synonyms
  • Polyommatus karsandraMoore, 1865

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]

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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]

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References

  1. 1 2 R. K., Varshney; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. p. 135. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN   978-81-929826-4-9.
  2. Fleming, W. A. (1975). Butterflies of West Malaysia & Singapore ISBN   0-900848-71-5
  3. Parsons, M. (1999). The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea. Academic Press. ISBN   0-12-545555-0
  4. 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.
  5. PD-icon.svgOne or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain : Moore, Frederic (1865). "List of diurnal Lepidoptera collected by Capt. A.M. Lang in the N. W. Himalayas". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1865 (2): 505. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  6. Swinhoe, Charles (1905–1910). Lepidoptera Indica: Volume VII. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 258–260.
  7. Savela, Markku (November 17, 2018). "Zizeeria karsandra (Moore, 1865)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 10, 2020.
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