Black-patch bluemark
Lasaia agesilas
The black-patch bluemark is a small butterfly whose wings glitter like a blue jewel. On top they are shiny metallic blue with black markings. It lives in the warm forests of Central and South America.
Lives in
From Mexico and Central America down to Argentina and the Amazon in Brazil
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Butterflies cannot bite or sting. Just enjoy watching it.
What does it eat?
Like most butterflies, it drinks sweet nectar from flowers.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Black-patch bluemark about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
One of its other names is the glittering sapphire, because its blue wings sparkle like a gemstone.
2
It belongs to the metalmarks, a butterfly family named for their shiny, metal-like marks.
3
A scientist called Pierre André Latreille first described it in 1809, more than 200 years ago.
you asked
Most asked questions about Black-patch bluemark
?Where does the black-patch bluemark live?
In Central America and the north of South America, from Mexico to Argentina.
?What colour is the black-patch bluemark?
The top of its wings is shiny metallic blue with black markings.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lasaia agesilas
- Named by
- Latreille, 1809
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Riodinidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Riodinidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Glittering sapphire, Narses metalmark
Where the facts come from
- Lasaia agesilas (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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