Transparent 6-line blue
The transparent six-line blue is a small butterfly from Asia and Australia. The male is pale violet with a frosty silver shine. Underneath, its wings are brown with thin white lines, and a black spot shines with orange and glittering blue.
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Fun facts
It is called transparent because the spots on the underside of its wings show through to the top, like through thin paper.
Its back wing has a tiny black tail with a white tip.
The caterpillar is green with a purple line along the ridge of its back.
The pupa is short and fat, and it is fastened to a leaf only by its tail end.
Most asked questions about Transparent 6-line blue
?Where does the transparent six-line blue live?
In India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, the Malay Peninsula, Java, Hong Kong and Australia.
?What does the transparent six-line blue caterpillar eat?
The leaves of a plant called Embelia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Nacaduba kurava
- Named by
- Moore, 1857
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Transparent six-line blue
Where the facts come from
- Nacaduba kurava (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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