Description

• Common Name : Pea Blue
• Scientific Name : Lampides boeticus (Linnaeus)
• Family : LYCAENIDAE
• Wingspan : 24-36mm
• Colour : White with reddish lines, the hind wing has a slightly long, white-tipped tail.
• Habit : The species is a regular migrant, very efficient flier, flies fast with rapid wing-beats, moves about low growing herbs or bushes for searching nectar. It frequently visits flowers, bask with their wings half open.
• Larval Host Plants : Pisum sativum, Vigna sinensis, Crotolaria sp., Butea monosperma
• Location : Throughout West Bengal

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