Gram blue
Euchrysops cnejus
The gram blue is a small butterfly. The male is pale purple, and only in some light does it shimmer blue. Each back wing has a thin black tail with a white tip, and two black spots near it.
Lives in
From India to Australia
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Grown-up butterflies sip nectar from flowers. Its caterpillars eat plants.
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)
Gram 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
Underneath, its wings are silver grey with brown spots edged in white.
2
The black spots near its tail have a thin white line on one side and orange on the other.
3
It belongs to the blues, a family of small, often blue butterflies.
you asked
Most asked questions about Gram blue
?Where does the gram blue live?
From India all the way to Australia.
?Is the gram blue really blue?
The male is pale purple with a blue shimmer that you only see in certain light.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Euchrysops cnejus
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1798
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Euchrysops cnejus (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 Milind Bhakare. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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