Oriental Grass Jewel

Freyeria putli (Kollar, [1844])  



Malayalam Name     

:

രത്ന നീലി

Common Name

:

Oriental Grass Jewel / Small Grass Jewel

Order 

:

Lepidoptera

Super Family            

:

Papilionoidae (Butterflies)

Family              

: 

Lycaenidae

Sub Family

:

Polyommatinae

Synonyms

:

Freyeria trochilus putli

DISTRIBUTION

This species can be found in  South and Southeast Asia, and Australia

STATUS:  Common

HABITAT

HABITS

IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES

Very small butterfly with wingspan is 18-20 mm .

Male. Upperside violet-brown : hindwing with indistinct marginal pale-bordered black spots. Cilia cinereous-white. Underside cinereous-brown : forewing with a white-bordered brown discocellular spot, a transverse discal and a submarginal row of similar spots : hindwing with a white-bordered black costal spot, four transverse subbasal spots and one near base of abdominal margin ; a white-bordered brown discocellular spot and a transverse discal row of similar spots, a marginal row of six prominent black conical spots speckled with metallic-green, the outer one at each end less distinct, each bordered by ochreous-yellow and above by a double white lunular line.

Female. Upperside similar, the marginal spots on hindwiag slightly bordered with ochreous ; markings of underside more distinct.

 

SIMILAR SPECIES:

LARVAL HOST PLANTS

Heliotropium strigosum, Trichodesma indicum (Boraginaceae); Crotalaria hebecarpa, Indigofera spp., I. astragalina, I. linnaei, Lotus corniculatus, Pisum sativum, Rhynchosia minima, Vicia spp., Zornia diphylla (Fabaceae); Oxalis corniculata (Oxalidaceae).

LIFE CYCLE

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Courtesy 
Write up:Wikipaedia
Images: TNHS

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