Description

• Common Name : Common Acacia Blue
• Scientific Name : Surendra vivarna (Moore)
• Family : LYCAENIDAE
• Wingspan : 30-40mm
• Colour : Upperside very dark brown blue with middle of the disc of forewing dark purple. Underside dark brown with fine black markings.
• Habit : Flies strongly but never far. Hardly visits flowers or damp patches. Usually seen sitting on a branch not much higher than the ground level. Photographed at Chilapata forest.
• Larval Host Plants : Acacia megadal, Acacia suma
• Location : North Bengal

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