Surendra vivarna
Species of butterfly
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Surendra vivarna, the acacia blue,[1][2] is a species of lycaenid or hairstreak butterfly found in Sri Lanka, India[1] and the Indonesian islands as far as Sulawesi.[3][2]
| Acacia blue | |
|---|---|
| In North Sulawesi | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Surendra |
| Species: | S. vivarna |
| Binomial name | |
| Surendra vivarna (Horsfield, 1829) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Range
Description
Upperside: both wings rather intense deep blue: primaries with the costa broadly, posterior margin more broadly, apex still more broadly black; secondaries with the blue limited to just over the median area, the rest of the wings black. Tails two, black, the longer one white-tipped. Underside : both wings very dark greyish brown: primaries with an obscure dark dot near the centre of the cell and a small dash closing it, costa with three dark dots; transverse blackish line curved irregularly and scalloped from the costa to the submedian nervure, a submarginal row of blackish dots, margin obscurely dark, internal area quite pale: secondaries with a small white spot about one-third along the costal nervure, below which is an obscure dark short dash in the cell; from two-thirds along the costa to the middle of the abdominal margin is a narrow, indefinite, obscure band of dark shading edged externally and sharply with white, a submarginal row of dark spots forming an almost lunular line; on each side of the long tail is a slight grey scaling. Upperside: both wings entirely dark brown. Underside as in the male, but decidedly paler.
— Bethune-Baker, A Revision of the Amblypodia Group of Butterflies of the Family Lycaenidae[5]
Subspecies
- Surendra vivarna amisena Hewitson, 1862, (South Burma, Thailand, Malaya, and Sumatra)[6]
- Surendra vivarna palowna Staudinger, 1889, (Borneo)[7]
- Surendra vivarna samina Fruhstorfer, 1904, (Sulawesi)[4]
- Surendra vivarna agdistis Fruhstorfer (Nias)
- Surendra vivarna biplagiata Butler, 1883 (southern India)[1][2]
- Surendra vivarna latimargo Moore, 1879 (Andamans)
- Surendra vivarna discalis Moore (Sri Lanka)
Food plants
Fabaceae (Acacia, Albizia, Paraserianthes) and it is facultatively attended by various ants.
- About to emerge
- Wings enlarging
- Male, underside, North Sulawesi
- Male, upperside, North Sulawesi
- Female, underside, North Sulawesi
- Female, underside, North Sulawesi
- Female, upperside, West Brunei
- Male and female S.v.samina
- From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel, Switzerland