Oriental Plains Cupid
Chilades pandava pandava (Horsfield, [1829])
Malayalam
Name |
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കണ നീലി |
Common Name |
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Oriental Plain Cupid/ Cycad Blue |
Order |
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Lepidoptera |
Super Family
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Papilionoidae
(Butterflies) |
Family
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Lycaenidae |
Sub Family |
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Polyommatinae |
Synonims |
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Luthrodus
pandava |
DISTRIBUTION
Indo-Malayan Realm
STATUS:
HABITAT
HABITS
IDENTIFICATION
FEATURES
Small
sized butterfly with wingspan 25-30 mm.
Male: upperside is lavender blue. Forewing has the
costa narrowly and terminal margin more broadly fuscous brown, the latter with
in addition an anteciliary black line; cilia light brown transversely traversed
close to but not at their bases by a dark brown line. Hindwing: costa narrowly
fuscous brown; a subterminal series of black
spots outwardly edged by a white line; the spot in interspace 2 the largest and
inwardly crowned more or less broadly with ochraceous yellow; Underside: greyish brown. there is a subbasal curved row
of four white-encircled spots, of which the anterior two and the spot on the
dorsum are black, the other dark brown.
Female upperside: brown. Forewing: shot with blue from base outwards for a little over half its length down its middle, this blue irroration not extended to the costal margin; a slender anteciliary black line. Hindwing: a touch of blue iridescence near base; terminal markings much as on the forewing but the subterminal spots larger and not extended beyond interspace 6; in addition postdiscally there is a lightening of the shade of the ground colour, between which paler area and the subterminal spots the ground colour assumes the form of a postdiscal, short, transverse lunular band. Underside of female as in the male, the markings slightly larger and more clearly defined. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen as in the male but slightly paler.
SIMILAR SPECIES:
LARVAL HOST PLANTS
Cycus circinalis, Cycus revoluta (Cycadaceae)
LIFE CYCLE
MORE IMAGES
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Male |
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Female |

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