Bright babul blue
The bright babul blue is a small butterfly from warm, dry lands. The male is brownish purple on top with dark blue near his body. Underneath, its wings are grey-brown with white lines and black spots ringed in white.
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Fun facts
The female is a rich, silky brown with a purple-blue glow near her body.
The male has a patch of special hair-like scales on his front wings that looks darker.
Its feelers are dark brown with little white rings, like striped candy sticks.
Butterflies from different places can look a little different in colour.
Most asked questions about Bright babul blue
?Where does the bright babul blue live?
In India, the Middle East and Africa.
?How can you tell the male and female apart?
The male is brownish purple with blue near the body. The female is silky brown with a purple-blue glow.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Azanus ubaldus
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Africa
- Also known as
- Desert babul blue, Velvet-spotted blue
Where the facts come from
- Azanus ubaldus (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 Firos AK. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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