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Blue Pansy Butterfly

Junonia orithya

Description:

2"+ wingspan, pattern looks the same but some have blue colour while others are dark grey. Males & females? Lots of them about, many in pairs.

Habitat:

Roadside verge

2 Species ID Suggestions

Blue Pansy
Junonia orithya Junonia orithya
Blue Pansy
Junonia orithya wallacei Junonia orithya from Wikipedia


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6 Comments

Jacob Gorneau
Jacob Gorneau 11 years ago

What a delicate beauty!

No problem, I added the links from both. The EOL link includes the sub-species info.

duttagupta35504
duttagupta35504 11 years ago

Oh, I'm sorry Malcolm Wilton-Jones, I didn't see the first ID before making mine. I thought there weren't any other IDs. It was only after I posted it I saw it.

Thank you both for the info, I have updated the page.

duttagupta35504, there is no need to make a second identical species suggestion to one already made, you only need to click on the plus sign next to the first suggestion, then additional information such as sub-species can be made in the comments.

duttagupta35504
duttagupta35504 11 years ago

This looks like a Blue Pansy, I made a species suggestion. The brown ones are probably the females and the blue ones male. You're so lucky, I really want to see them. They're so pretty.

Malaysia

Spotted on Jan 13, 2013
Submitted on Mar 2, 2013

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