Common line blue
Prosotas nora
The common line blue is a tiny purplish-brown butterfly. Underneath, its wings are brown with lots of thin white lines, which gives it its name. Each back wing has a little black tail with a white tip.
Lives in
From India and Sri Lanka through Southeast Asia to the Philippines and Australia
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat only flowers and flower buds, for example of acacia, mimosa and curry leaf trees.
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)
Common line blue about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The mother pushes her eggs deep between tightly packed flower buds.
2
She hides the eggs under a clear jelly, so they are hard to find.
3
The female has a shiny bluish shimmer on her front wings.
4
It has eleven slightly different kinds in different places.
you asked
Most asked questions about Common line blue
?What does the common line blue eat?
Its caterpillars eat only flowers and flower buds of plants like acacia and mimosa.
?Why is it called a line blue?
Because the underside of its wings is covered with thin white lines.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Prosotas nora
- Named by
- Felder, 1860
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Common lineblue
Where the facts come from
- Prosotas nora (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 L. Shyamal. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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