Purple leaf blue
Amblypodia anita
The purple leaf blue is a butterfly from South and Southeast Asia. The boy is dark violet purple on top, and underneath both are a reddish brown. Its back wings end in a short, sturdy tail.
Lives in
South and Southeast Asia, including Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, Malaysia and Java
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is a butterfly and cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other butterflies, the grown-up drinks sweet 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)
Purple leaf 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
The girl is much duller than the boy, sometimes almost violet brown.
2
Its feelers are black with an orange tip.
3
It has a small dull red mark near the tail of each back wing.
4
It belongs to the family of blues, a big group of small butterflies.
you asked
Most asked questions about Purple leaf blue
?Where does the purple leaf blue live?
In South and Southeast Asia, from India and Sri Lanka to Malaysia and Java.
?Who named the purple leaf blue?
The British scientist William Chapman Hewitson described it in 1862.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Amblypodia anita
- Named by
- Hewitson, 1862
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Leaf blue
Where the facts come from
- Amblypodia anita (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 J.M.Garg. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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