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Lesser Grass Blue Butterfly

Zizina otis otis

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Description:

Zizina otis (Fabricius, 1787), the Lesser Grass Blue, is a species of blue butterfly, family Lycaenidae.

Zizina otis otis (Fabricius, 1787) is the Philippine subspecies occurring in Bohol, Cebu, Jolo, Leyte, Luzon, Mindanao, Palawan.

Male upperside is pale violet-blue, with a silvery sheen in certain lights. Forewing has a broad brown edging along the termen, which covers in some specimens quite the outer fourth of the wing, while in others is much narrower. It is always broadest at the apex and is bounded by an anticiliary darker line, beyond which the cilia are brownish at base and white outwardly.

Habitat:

Backyard garden.

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