Oriental Gram Blue Butterfly (Male)
Euchrysops cnejus cnejus
14.33, 121.09
Field Notes
Description:
Euchrysops cnejus (Fabricius, 1798), the Gram Blue, Gram Cupid, Five-spotted Pea-blue, is a small butterfly that belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues family. Euchrysops cnejus cnejus (Fabricius, 1798), the Oriental Gram Blue, has Philippine distribution in Cebu, Leyte, Luzon, Palawan, Tawi-tawi.
Habitat:
Backyard, spotted amongst the weeds.
Notes:
Euchrysops Butler, 1900 (Plain Cupids, Gram Blues) is richly represented in the Afrotropical Region, but with only a single species in the Oriental, Australian and Pacific Regions - Euchrysops cnejus Fabricius, 1798.
Ssp. E. cnejus luzonicus Röber, 1886, has the following range: Philippines (Palawan, Cebu, Leyte, Luzon, Tawitawi), Kep. Sangihe, Kep. Talaud. But note that Treadaway (1995) includes all Philippine records within the typical subspecies, E. cnejus cnejus.
Reference:
http://pbh-butterflies.yolasite.com/philippine-butterflies.php
http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/p…
http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/46743
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