Pointed ciliate blue
The pointed ciliate blue is a small butterfly from India and Southeast Asia. It belongs to the blues, a family of little butterflies. Its front wings end in a sharp point.
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Fun facts
It looks almost exactly like a cousin called Anthene emolus, but its wings are narrower and more pointed.
Under each back wing it has a big dark spot with a white ring, which its look-alike cousin never has.
There are five subspecies living in different places, from Sri Lanka to the Philippines.
It was first described by the scientist Cajetan Felder in 1868.
Most asked questions about Pointed ciliate blue
?Where does the pointed ciliate blue live?
In India, Sri Lanka and many parts of Southeast Asia.
?How can you tell the pointed ciliate blue from its look-alike?
Its wings are more pointed, and there is a dark white-ringed spot under each back wing.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anthene lycaenina
- Named by
- Felder, 1868
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Anthene lycaenina (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 Vinayaraj. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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