- Source: Freyeria putli
Freyeria putli, the eastern grass jewel or small grass jewel, or oriental grass jewel is a small butterfly found in Ceylon, Myanmar, India and Australia that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.
Description
Frederic Moore (1880) gives a detailed description:
Male. Upperside violet-brown : hindwing with indistinct marginal pale-bordered black spots. Cilia cinereous-white. Underside cinereous-brown : forewing with a white-bordered brown discocellular spot, a transverse discal and a submarginal row of similar spots : hindwing with a white-bordered black costal spot, four transverse subbasal spots and one near base of abdominal margin ; a white-bordered brown discocellular spot and a transverse discal row of similar spots, a marginal row of six prominent black conical spots speckled with metallic-green, the outer one at each end less distinct, each bordered by ochreous-yellow and above by a double white lunular line.
Female. Upperside similar, the marginal spots on hindwiag slightly bordered with ochreous ; markings of underside more distinct.
See also
List of butterflies of India
List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Daftar kupu-kupu Jepang
- Daftar kupu-kupu Taiwan
- Freyeria putli
- Freyeria
- List of butterflies of Kerala
- List of butterflies of Japan
- Nanda Lake
- List of butterflies of Thailand
- List of butterflies of China (Lycaenidae)
- List of butterflies of Taiwan
- List of butterflies of Bhutan
- List of butterflies of Gujarat
