Cassius blue
The Cassius blue is a small butterfly with pale blue wings. Underneath, its wings have stripes, which is why it is also called the tropical striped blue. It flutters around warm places in the Americas.
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Fun facts
A girl in a famous novel, Blue van Meer, was named after this butterfly.
Its caterpillars can grow up on plumbago, a plant that is not related to the bean plants they usually eat.
Sometimes single butterflies fly far north, as far as Virginia and Kansas.
Most asked questions about Cassius blue
?What does the Cassius blue caterpillar eat?
Mostly bean family plants, like lima beans, and also plumbago.
?How big is the Cassius blue?
Its wings measure about 2 to 3.5 centimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Leptotes cassius
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Tropical striped blue
Where the facts come from
- Leptotes cassius (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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