Bindahara phocides

Plane
Bindahara phocides isabella Indonesia
Bindahara phocides moorei Ceylon Courvoisier Collection, Basel
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Bindahara
Species:	B. phocides
Binomial name
Bindahara phocides (Fabricius 1793)

Bindahara phocides, the plane, is a small butterfly found Indomalayan (including India) and Australasian realms that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

At Mount Harriet National Park in the Andamans

Subspecies

• B. p. phocides Sikkim - Burma, South Yunnan
• B. p. fumata (Röber, 1887) Sulawesi, Talaud, Banggai, Sula
• B. p. moorei Fruhstorfer, 1904 Ceylon, South India
• B. p. phocas Staudinger, 1889 Palawan
• B. p. chromis (Mathew, 1887) Bismarck Archipelago, Solomons
• B. p. isabella (Felder, 1860) Cape York - Townsvill
• B. p. origenes Fruhstorfer, 1912 Philippines (Mindanao)

Biology

The larva feeds on Salacia.

See also

• List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)

References

• Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. 
• Gaonkar, Harish (1996). Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (including Sri Lanka) - A Biodiversity Assessment of a Threatened Mountain System. Bangalore, India: Centre for Ecological Sciences. 
• Gay, Thomas; Kehimkar, Isaac David; Punetha, Jagdish Chandra (1992). Common Butterflies of India. Nature Guides. Bombay, India: World Wide Fund for Nature-India by Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195631647. 
• Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation. 
• Kunte, Krushnamegh (2000). Butterflies of Peninsular India. India, A Lifescape. Hyderabad, India: Universities Press. ISBN 978-8173713545. 
• Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329.