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Common Cerulean

Jamides Celeno

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Field Notes

Description:

Male upperside: pale purplish suffused with a bluish shade, apparent only in certain lights. Fore wing: a slender black anticiliary line edged on the inner side narrowly with fuscous dark brown, broader at apex than at the tornal angle
Female upperside : dark brown. Fore wing: a posteromedial somewhat triangular area from the base outwards for about two-thirds the length of the wing blue and a slender jet-black anticiliary line

Habitat:

Throughout India except at very high elevations. Widely distributed in the Malayan Subregion; extending to Australia and the South Sea Islands

Species ID Suggestions

Common Cerulean

Jamides Celeno

Comments (6)

This is the Common Cerulean like AnjaliAnantharam suggested. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CeruleanLyc.jpg
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PublishedNovember 26, 2011

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