Lampides boeticus (Linnaeus, 1767), 2020

Sidat, Azaz & Bhatt, Urjit, 2020, Annotated checklist of butterflies of Ankleshwar-an industrial town in Gujarat, India, Check List 16 (4), pp. 997-1015 : 1010

Lampides boeticus (Linnaeus, 1767)

Pea Blue

Figure 8B

Material examined. INDIA • Gujarat, Bharuch district, Ankleshwar; transects T-01, T-02, T-03, T-04, T-05, T-06, T-07, T-08, T-09, T-10 ( Table 1); agricultural hedges or barren/discarded lands, suburban areas, industrial zone, roadside vegetation, and near ponds with surrounding wetland plants.

Identification. Long, white-tipped, tailed hindwing; white underside with light or dark reddish line; distinct white band within outer margin of hindwing, where the lines are absent; underside forewing with no spots; un- derside hindwing with two orange-ringed black tornal spots, with metallic silver crown.