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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Dark Grass Blue (Zizeeria karsandra) is a small butterfly found in the Southern Mediterranean, in a broad band to India, Sri Lanka, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia,[1] Indonesia, the Philippines, New Guinea and northern and eastern Australia.[2] It belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues family, and the tribe Polyommatini[3]
The recorded foodplants include :[4]
- Zornia diphylla.
- Amaranthus viridis (in association with ant Tapinoma melanocephalum).
- Amaranthus tricolor, A. viridis.
- Melilotus indica.
- Medicago sativa.
- Zornia diphylla.
- Trifolium alexandrinu.
- Glinus lotoides.
- Tribulus cistoides, T. terrestris.
Gallery
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in Hyderabad, India.
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on Boerhavia diffusa in Hyderabad, India.
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at Jayanti in Buxa Tiger Reserve in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, India.
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at Jayanti in Buxa Tiger Reserve in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, India.
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.
- ↑ Zizeeria on Markku Savela's website "Lepidoptera and some other life forms. Accessed 19 January 2011.
External links
- Asahi Correctly determined photos of Z. karsandra from the Philippines