Plumbeous Silverline
Cigaritis schistacea (Moore, [1881])
Malayalam Name | : | പുൽ വെള്ളിവരയൻ |
Common Name | ; | Plumbeous Silverline |
Order | : | Lepidoptera |
Super Family | : | Papilionoidae (Butterflies) |
Family | : | Lycaenidae |
Sub Family | : | Aphnaeinae |
DISTRIBUTION : The species found distrubted in South India, Sri Lanka and Malasia.
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IDENTIFICATION FEATURES:
Male. Upperside brown, Forewlng very variable in markings, sometimes the orange-red transverse streaks are very few and ill defined, sometimes towards the upper outer part of the wing they are so broad as to form an orange-red ground colour traversed by brown bands. Hindwing highly tinted with blue (not lilac as in fusca), the disc in certain lights being bright blue in fresh specimens, anal orange-red patch and tails as in fusca. Underside with the ground colour and bands as in fusca, but all the bands are at more even distances apart from each other and are consequently closer together. Female. Upperside brown like the male, but with no blue tint or gloss; markings above and below similar, but the bands on the underside a good deal broader than they are in the male.
SIMILAR SPECIES :
Cigaritis vulcanus (Common Silverline)
LARVAL HOST PLANTS
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