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Amblypodia anita, the purple leaf blue [1] [2] or leaf blue, [2] is a lycaenid or blue butterfly found in South Asia and Southeast Asia, including Sri Lanka, India, [1] Myanmar, Malaysia, and Java. The species was first described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1862.
The Menelaus blue morpho (Morpho menelaus) is one of thirty species of butterfly in the subfamily Morphinae. [1] Its wingspan is approximately 12 cm (4.7"), and its dorsal forewings and hindwings are a bright, iridescent blue edged with black, while the ventral surfaces are brown. [ 2 ]
Myrina silenus, the common fig-tree blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Sub-Saharan Africa, southern Arabia and northern Oman. Description
Blue butterfly may refer to: Butterflies. Lycaenidae, a family of butterflies Polyommatinae, a subfamily consisting of the blue butterflies
It has bright blue wings rimmed in black with white edges and silver spots on its hindwings, lending it the name of the silver-studded blue. P. argus can be found across Europe and east across the Palearctic , but it is most often studied in the United Kingdom where the species has experienced a severe decline in population due to habitat loss ...
The sapphire blue of the upper wings may appear black or neon blue depending on how the light is reflected. The undersides of the hindwings have a cryptic coloration, as they are mottled with different shades of color, varying from gray to brown, while the under sides of the forewings are black with white patches.
Celastrina ladon, the spring azure or echo blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae.It is found in North America from Alaska and Canada south of the tundra, through most of the United States except the Texas coast, southern plain and peninsula Florida; south in the mountains to Colombia, also on Molokai island, Hawaii.
Morpho didius, the giant blue morpho, is a Neotropical butterfly belonging to the subfamily Morphinae of family Nymphalidae. It is considered, by some authors, ...