Sahyadri blue oakleaf
The Sahyadri blue oakleaf is a butterfly with a wonderful disguise. When it closes its wings, the underside looks just like a dry brown leaf, with a line down the middle like a leaf vein. When it opens them, the top side is a brilliant deep blue.
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Fun facts
Its wings measure 84 to 120 millimetres from tip to tip.
It looks different in the dry season and the wet season. In the dry season the blue band on its front wing turns white at one end.
Its caterpillar is golden brown with red, branching spines and a black head with two long horns.
Its chrysalis is earthy brown with a pinkish tinge, so it blends in too.
Most asked questions about Sahyadri blue oakleaf
?Why does the blue oakleaf look like a leaf?
When it sits with its wings closed, it looks just like a dry leaf, so birds do not notice it.
?How big is the Sahyadri blue oakleaf?
Its wings are 84 to 120 millimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Kallima horsfieldii
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Blue oakleaf, Southern blue oakleaf
Where the facts come from
- Kallima horsfieldii (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 Dr. Raju Kasambe. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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