| Papuan Line-blue (previously known as Lycaena ancrya) POLYOMMATINI, POLYOMMATINAE, LYCAENIDAE, PAPILIONOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male and female upper surfaces
(Photo: courtesy of
Yusuke Takanami & Yasuo Seki)
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| Papuan Line-blue (previously known as Lycaena ancrya) POLYOMMATINI, POLYOMMATINAE, LYCAENIDAE, PAPILIONOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male and female upper surfaces
(Photo: courtesy of
Yusuke Takanami & Yasuo Seki)
These Caterpillars are green, segmented, and hairy. They feed on the flowers of such plants as :
The male adult butterflies of this species are lilac on top, whereas the females are brown. Both have a little tail at the tornus of each hind wing. The males have one or two black spots beside each tail. The females have a whole arc of black spots along the margin of each hind wing.
Underneath, both sexes are pale grey, with multiple arcs of white dashes, and a black spot by the tail surrounded in orange. The butterflies have a wing span of about 2 cms.
The species occurs as several races across south-east Asia, including
and as mysia (Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914) in Australia in
Further reading :
Michael F. Braby,
Butterflies of Australia,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 2000, vol. 2, pp. 800-801.
Baron Cajetan von Felder,
Lepidopterorum Amboienensium species novae diagnosibus,
Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe,
Volume 40, Series 11 (1860), pp. 457-458, No. 36.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(updated 31 March 2011, 23 December 2023)