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Lesser Grass Blue

Zizina otis

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Field Notes

Description:

Male upperside. Pale violet-blue, with a silvery sheen in certain lights, fore wing: 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.

Hind wing: anterior or costal third to half and apex brown; a slender black anticiliary line, beyond which the cilia are as in the fore wing.

Please see link for more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zizina_otis

Notes:

This is a tiny butterfly.

Species ID Suggestions

Pygmy Grass Blue

Zizula hylax pygmaea

Lesser Grass Blue Butterfly

Zizina otis otis

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