Zizeeria karsandra
Dark grass blue | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Zizeeria |
Species: | Z. karsandra
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Binomial name | |
Zizeeria karsandra (Moore, 1865)
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Synonyms | |
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Zizeeria karsandra, the dark grass blue,
Description
Frederic Moore described this species on 1865 as: "Upperside purple-brown. Underside greyish brown, exterior margins defined by a brown line: fore wing with a spot within discoidal cell, a discocellular streak, a spot above it, and a transverse discal series of six spots black, each encircled with white; a marginal and submarginal row of pale brown, white-bordered lunules: hind wing with a series of twelve black spots, and a pale discocellular streak, encircled with white; a marginal row of pale brown, whitish-encircled spots, and a submarginal row of whitish lunules: cilia greyish brown."[5][6]
Food plants
The recorded food plants include:[7]
- Zornia diphylla
- Amaranthus viridis (in association with the ant Tapinoma melanocephalum)
- Amaranthus tricolor
- Amaranthus viridis
- Melilotus indica
- Medicago sativa
- Zornia diphylla
- Trifolium alexandrinum
- Glinus lotoides
- Tribulus cistoides
- Tribulus terrestris
Gallery
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Upperside (male)
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Upperside (female)
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In Hyderabad, India
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9.
- ISBN 0-900848-71-5
- ISBN 0-12-545555-0
- ^ Eliot, J. N. (1973). "The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative arrangement". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology. 28: 371-505.
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Moore, Frederic (1865). "List of diurnal Lepidoptera collected by Capt. A.M. Lang in the N. W. Himalayas". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1865 (2): 505. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
- ^ Swinhoe, Charles (1905–1910). Lepidoptera Indica: Volume VII. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 258–260.
- ^ Savela, Markku (November 17, 2018). "Zizeeria karsandra (Moore, 1865)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 10, 2020.