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Scientific Name : Catochrysops strabo
Family : Lycaenidae
Order : Lepidoptera
Class : Insecta
Phylum : Arthropoda
Habitat : Foests,Plain land,Gardens
Description : The butterfly's upperside is pale violet with a blue sheen. The forewing has a slender dark line along the edge, and the hindwing has a short brown bar in interspace 1 and a black spot in interspace 2. The underside is pale dull grey with brownish-black markings on both forewings and hindwings. The female's upperside has brownish-black borders on the forewing and hindwing, with white and metallic blue flushing. The underside is similar to the male. Both have dark brown antennae, head, thorax, and abdomen, while the underside of the palpi, thorax, and abdomen is white.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Dacalana penicilligera
(Double-tufted Royal) -
Loxura atymnus
(Yamfly) -
Mahathala ameria
(Falcate Oakblue) -
Rapala dieneces
(Scarlet Flash) -
Rapala pheretima
(Copper Flash) -
Zizeeria karsandra
(Dark Grass Blue) -
Amblypodia anita
(Purple Leaf Blue) -
Prosotas lutea
(Brown Lineblue) -
Zeltus amasa
(Fluffy Tit) -
Cigaritis ictis
(Shot Silverline)
References:
description written by:Razia Sultana Setu,Department of Zoology,University of Dhaka;information source:IUCN Red List Bangladesh-2015, One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a work now in the public domain: Bingham, C. T. (1907). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Butterflies Volume II. London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd. pp. 411–412.photo credit:CheongWeei Gan (www.inaturalist.org/people/CheongWeei Gan ),photo copyright: iNaturalist. more information please contact with us.
description written by:Razia Sultana Setu,Department of Zoology,University of Dhaka;information source:IUCN Red List Bangladesh-2015, One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a work now in the public domain: Bingham, C. T. (1907). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Butterflies Volume II. London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd. pp. 411–412.photo credit:CheongWeei Gan (www.inaturalist.org/people/CheongWeei Gan ),photo copyright: iNaturalist. more information please contact with us.