| White-margined Moonbeam (previously known as Holochila ziska) LUCIINI, THECLINAE, LYCAENIDAE, PAPILIONOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
(Photos: courtesy of Bob Miller and Ian Hill)
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| White-margined Moonbeam (previously known as Holochila ziska) LUCIINI, THECLINAE, LYCAENIDAE, PAPILIONOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
(Photos: courtesy of Bob Miller and Ian Hill)
The Caterpillars of this species in New Guinea feed on :
female
(Photos: courtesy of Bob Miller and Ian Hill)
The male adult butterflies on top are blue with black edges. The females are black with a large white patch on each wing. Underneath, they both are white with a thin black edge along the tornus of each hindwing, and a black dot near the base of each hindwing. The butterflies have a wingspan of about 2.5 cms.
The species occurs in
and in Australia as the subspecies titeus D'Abrera, 1971, in
Further reading :
Michael F. Braby,
Butterflies of Australia,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 2000, vol. 2, pp. 682-683.
Henley Grose Grose-Smith & William Forsell Kirby,
Lycaenidae (Oriental) Holochila,
Rhopalocera Exotica,
Series 3, Volume 2 (1897), p. 11, No. 18, and also
Plate 2, figs. 11-13.
Donald Peter Andrew Sands,
Review of Australian Philiris Röber (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), with notes on variation and descriptions of two new subspecies from Cape York peninsula,
Australian Entomologist,
Volume 42, Part 4 (2015), pp. 219-252.
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(updated 29 May 2008, 23 November 2013, 7 August 200)