Rounded Six-Lineblue

Nacaduba berenice plumbeomicans (Wood-Mason & de Niceville, 1881)

Malayalam Name     

:

മോതിര വരയൻ നീലി

Common Name

:

Rounded Six-Lineblue

Order 

:

Lepidoptera

Super Family            

:

Papilionoidae (Butterflies)

Family              

: 

Lycaenidae

Sub Family

:

Polyommatinae

Synonyms

:

DISTRIBUTION

This species distributed in Indo-Malayan Realm

STATUS:  Common

HABITAT

HABITS

IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES

Male upperside: dull purplish blue, in certain lights with a shining plumbeous (lead-coloured) frosting. Forewings and hindwings: black anteciliary lines and on the hindwing the black subterminal spot in interspace 2 on the underside apparent by transparency. Underside: purplish grey. Forewing: a pair of curved white lines from costa transversely across the cell to vein 1, a short similar line on the inner side of the discocellulars followed by three transverse discal similar lines from costa to vein 1, an inner and outer transverse subterminal series of slender white lunules and an anteciliary dark brown line. Hindwing: crossed transversely by three slender broken lines, with a short line on the inner side of the discocellulars between the outer two; these are followed by a discal and a postdiscal less broken and interrupted similar lines, a double series of slender white lunules and a dark anteciliary line as on the forewing. Cilia of both forewings and hindwings dark brown.

Female upperside: fuscous brown, the veins prominent; an elongate oval medial patch extended from base outwards on forewing for about two-thirds of its length, dull brownish white brilliantly iridescent with metallic blue in certain lights. Hindwing: a postdiscal transverse series of slender detached white lunules, followed by a similar subterminal series of continuous lunules that encloses between it and a slender terminal white line a transverse series of black spots; these spots decrease in size anteriorly; lastly a conspicuous anteciliary black line. Underside: pale ochraceous brown; markings much as in the male, but of the transverse white lines that cross the disc of the forewing the outer one is shorter, not extended below vein 3.

SIMILAR SPECIES:

LARVAL HOST PLANTS

LIFE CYCLE

MORE  IMAGES

female

male



Courtesy 
Write up:Wikipaedia
Images: TNHS

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