Polyommatus loewii

Taxobox | name = Large Jewel Blue
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Lycaenidae
genus = "Polyommatus"
species = "P. melampus"
binomial = "Polyommatus loewii"
binomial_authority = Zeller, 1847

The Large Jewel Blue "Polyommatus loewii"Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera [http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/lycaenidae/polyommatinae/Polyommatus/index.html| Page on "Polyommatus" genus.] ] [http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/lepindex/detail.dsml?TaxonNo=206140.0&UserID=&UserName=&&listPageURL=list%2edsml%3fSCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26sort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3dloewii%26recLimit%3d30&searchPageURL=index%2edsml%3fsort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3dloewii%26recLimit%3d30 Card for "Polyommatus loewii" in LepIndex. Accessed 14 Jun 2007.] ] is a species of blue butterfly found in South East Asia.

Range

The butterfly occurs in Sri Lanka and in India from South India to Orissa, and, in the north from Murree to Kumaon Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no H85.16, pp 299.] The range extends to Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Java.

Asia Minor, Kurdistan, Caucasus, Middle East, Iran - Chitral, Turkestan. Armenia (highland), Caucasus Major, Talysh Mts. GhissarAfghanistan, Arbarp, 10 miles W of Kabul

tatus

Not Rare.

Cited references

ee also

*List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)

References

* Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex.
* Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India
* Haribal, Meena (1994) Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and their Natural History.
* Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/index.html] .
* Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.