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In Georgia, the eastern pygmy-blue is the smallest butterfly, where it lives along coastal portions of southeastern Georgia. It is a blue butterfly with a row of four silvery black spots along the ventral hindwing margin. Adults have a low, weak flight pattern and flutter just above the surface of host plants. Adults appear from May to August.
Myscelia ethusa, the Mexican bluewing or blue wing, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. The species was first described by Louis Michel François Doyère in 1840. It is found from Colombia north through Central America to Mexico. Strays can be found up to the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas in the United States.
The blue tit is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia. It was traditionally called Chliaria kina [ 1 ] but the genus Chliaria is merged into Hypolycaena by many recent authors.
It was characterized by blue wings with white spots. [10] The butterflies fed on vegetation belonging to the genus Lotus and Lupinus. [10] The loss of the Lotus plant that the butterfly fed on while in its larval stages is believed to be one reason for the extinction of the Xerces blue. The plant could not survive in the disturbed soils due to ...
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Theclinesthes serpentata, commonly known as the saltbush blue or chequered blue, is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae that is native to Australia. [1] The species was first described in 1869 by German entomologist and physician G. A. W. Herrich-Schäffer. [2]
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.