Lampides boeticus

Taxobox
name = Peablue or Long-tailed Blue

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image_caption = "Lampides boeticus". Side.
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
superfamilia = Papilionoidea
familia = Lycaenidae
genus = "Lampides"
species = "L. boeticus"
binomial = "Lampides boeticus"
binomial_authority = (Linnaeus, 1767)

The Peablue ("Lampides boeticus"), or Long-tailed Blue, is a small butterfly found in Europe, Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and Australia that belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues family.

Foodplants

*"Crotolaria pallida" [Kunte, K. 2006. Additions to the known larval host plants of Indian butterflies. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 103(1):119-121]

Gallery

ee also

*List of butterflies of India
*List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)

References

*Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India
*Gaonkar, Harish (1996) Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (including Sri Lanka) - A Biodiversity Assessment of a threatened mountain system. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.
*Gay, Thomas; Kehimkar,Isaac & Punetha,J.C.(1992) Common Butterflies of India. WWF-India and Oxford University Press, Mumbai, India.
*Haribal, Meena (1994) Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and their Natural History.
*Kunte, Krushnamegh (2005) Butterflies of Peninsular India. Universities Press.
*Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.

External links

* [http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~EY4Y-TKNM/philframe.html Asahi] Correctly determined photos of "L. boeticus" from the Philippines