Eastern grass jewel | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Freyeria |
Species: | F. putli
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Binomial name | |
Freyeria putli | |
Synonyms | |
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Freyeria putli, the eastern grass jewel or small grass jewel,[2] or oriental grass jewel[3] is a small butterfly found in Ceylon, Myanmar, India and Australia that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.[2][4][5]
For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms. |
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.
— Frederic Moore, The Lepidoptera of Ceylon. Vol. I[6]