Lang's short-tailed blue
Lang's short-tailed blue is a tiny butterfly. The boy is purple-blue on top and the girl is bluish brown. Underneath, its wings are beige with white zebra-like stripes, and each back wing has two little tails.
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Fun facts
It travels long distances, and sometimes turns up far north of its home.
It goes from egg to butterfly in about four to eight weeks, faster when it is warm.
Near the little tails it has orange and black spots that look like a fake head.
It likes to rest on clumps of thyme.
Most asked questions about Lang's short-tailed blue
?How big is Lang's short-tailed blue?
Its wings are only about 2 to 3 centimetres across.
?Why is it called a zebra blue?
Because the undersides of its wings have white stripes like a zebra.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Leptotes pirithous
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
- Also known as
- Common zebra blue
Where the facts come from
- Leptotes pirithous (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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