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Common Cerulean

Jamides Celeno

Description:

Male upperside: pale purplish suffused with a bluish shade, apparent only in certain lights. Fore wing: a slender black anticiliary line edged on the inner side narrowly with fuscous dark brown, broader at apex than at the tornal angle Female upperside : dark brown. Fore wing: a posteromedial somewhat triangular area from the base outwards for about two-thirds the length of the wing blue and a slender jet-black anticiliary line

Habitat:

Throughout India except at very high elevations. Widely distributed in the Malayan Subregion; extending to Australia and the South Sea Islands

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Common Cerulean
Jamides Celeno


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6 Comments

SaurabhNitishMinz
SaurabhNitishMinz 12 years ago

yup got it thanks...................

CindyBinghamKeiser
CindyBinghamKeiser 12 years ago

This is the Common Cerulean like AnjaliAnantharam suggested. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cerule...

AnjaliAnantharam
AnjaliAnantharam 12 years ago

It looks more like a Common Cerulean...

SaurabhNitishMinz
SaurabhNitishMinz 12 years ago

is the one i suggested is wrong???????

AnjaliAnantharam
AnjaliAnantharam 12 years ago

All the blues make such wonderful photographs...

SaurabhNitishMinz
Spotted by
SaurabhNitishMinz

Raigarh, Orissa, India

Spotted on Nov 26, 2011
Submitted on Nov 26, 2011

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