Dark cerulean
Jamides bochus
The dark cerulean is a small butterfly from the family of blues. The male's wings are velvety black, with a shining metallic blue patch near the body. Underneath, it is chocolate brown with thin white lines.
Lives in
India, Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, to Taiwan and Australia
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The butterflies drink nectar from flowers. The caterpillars eat flowers and leaves of some 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)
Dark cerulean about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Each back wing has a tiny black tail with a white tip.
2
The female's blue is paler and not shiny like the male's.
3
Its caterpillar is olive green and covered with tiny hairs.
4
The caterpillars like to eat the flowers of the flame of the forest tree.
you asked
Most asked questions about Dark cerulean
?What does the dark cerulean look like?
The male is velvety black with shiny metallic blue near the body. Underneath it is chocolate brown.
?Where does the dark cerulean live?
In India, Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, as far as Taiwan and Australia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Jamides bochus
- Named by
- Stoll, 1782
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Jamides bochus (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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