Zizeeria karsandra
| Dark grass blue | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Zizeeria |
| Species: | Z. karsandra |
| Binomial name | |
| Zizeeria karsandra (Moore, 1865) | |
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Zizeeria karsandra, the dark grass blue,[1] is a small butterfly first described by Frederic Moore in 1865. It is found from the southern Mediterranean, in a broad band to India,[1] Sri Lanka, the Andaman and Nicobar islands, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia,[2] Yunnan, Indonesia, the Philippines, Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Oman, New Guinea and northern and eastern Australia.[3] It belongs to the lycaenids or blues family, and the tribe Polyommatini.[4]
Description
Frederic Moore described this species on 1865 as: "Upperside purple-brown. Underside greyish brown, exterior margins defined by a brown line: fore wing with a spot within discoidal cell, a discocellular streak, a spot above it, and a transverse discal series of six spots black, each encircled with white; a marginal and submarginal row of pale brown, white-bordered lunules: hind wing with a series of twelve black spots, and a pale discocellular streak, encircled with white; a marginal row of pale brown, whitish-encircled spots, and a submarginal row of whitish lunules: cilia greyish brown."[5][6]
Food plants
The recorded food plants include:[7]
- Zornia diphylla
- Amaranthus viridis (in association with the ant Tapinoma melanocephalum)
- Amaranthus tricolor
- Amaranthus viridis
- Melilotus indica
- Medicago sativa
- Zornia diphylla
- Trifolium alexandrinum
- Glinus lotoides
- Tribulus cistoides
- Tribulus terrestris
Gallery
Upperside (male)
Upperside (female)
In Hyderabad, India
See also
References
- ^ a b R. K., Varshney; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. p. 135. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9.
- ^ Fleming, W. A. (1975). Butterflies of West Malaysia & Singapore ISBN 0-900848-71-5
- ^ Parsons, M. (1999). The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea. Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-545555-0
- ^ Eliot, J. N. (1973). "The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative arrangement". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology. 28: 371-505.
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Moore, Frederic (1865). "List of diurnal Lepidoptera collected by Capt. A.M. Lang in the N. W. Himalayas". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1865 (2): 505. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
- ^ Swinhoe, Charles (1905–1910). Lepidoptera Indica: Volume VII. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 258–260.
- ^ Savela, Markku (November 17, 2018). "Zizeeria karsandra (Moore, 1865)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 10, 2020.
