Long-banded silverline
Cigaritis lohita
The long-banded silverline is a small butterfly that is dark brown with a shiny violet-blue glow on top. Underneath it is pale yellow-white with dark red bands that have silvery lines inside them. Each back wing has two thin black tails with white tips.
Lives in
South and Southeast Asia
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other small blue butterflies, the grown-ups sip nectar from flowers.
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)
Long-banded silverline about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Near its tails it has an orange patch with a black spot.
2
The silvery lines inside its red bands give it the name silverline.
3
The fringes on the edges of its wings are grey.
you asked
Most asked questions about Long-banded silverline
?Why is it called a silverline?
Because the red bands under its wings have shiny silver lines inside them.
?Is the long-banded silverline dangerous?
No. It is a small butterfly that cannot bite or sting.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cigaritis lohita
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Cigaritis lohita (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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