Common Line Blue

Description:

Prosotas nora semperi Fruhstorfer, 1916, the Common Line Blue is ditributed in the Philippines in Basilan, Leyte, Luzon, Marinduque, Mindoro, Mindanao, Negros, Samar. The adult butterflies have a small tail at the tornus of each hind wing. The adult male is brown with a purple sheen on top. The females are brown with an arc of black spots along the margin of each hind wing ending in a big spot by the tail. The underside of the wings of both sexes are fawn, with multiple arcs of white dashes, and with a black spot beside the tail of each hind wing. The wingspan is about 2 cms. The species occurs from India to the Philippines, including the tropical coast of Queensland. I erroneously IDd this before as a Nacaduba kurava species.

Habitat:

Spotted in the garden of Monte Maria, a church located on a hill near a vast pasture land in Alfonso Cavite, just outside Tagaytay.

Notes:

Reference: http://pbh-butterflies.yolasite.com/phil... http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~Ey4y-TKNM/ph...