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Zizina

Photo by JordiPrats
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Field Notes

Description:

Underside brownish grey, black antenna, shafts ringed with white; head, thorax and abdomen brown, with a little blue scaling; beneath white.

Habitat:

Spotted during at evening walk at Nusa Dharma Island, Nusa Dua - Bali, Indonesia / Coastal area, this butterfly can only be found in south East Asia.

Notes:

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Lycaeninae
Genus: Zizina

Reference Links:

Zizina - Wikipedia

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