Cigaritis vulcanus
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| Common Silverline | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Cigaritis |
| Species: | C. vulcanus |
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| Cigaritis vulcanus (Fabricius, 1775). |
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The Common Silverline, Cigaritis vulcanus is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in Asia.
Food Plants
The larvae feed on Jujube, Zizyphus rugosa, Lxora longifolia, Clerodendrum siphomanthus, C. inerme,[1]Allophylus cobbe, Ixora chinensis[2] and Canthium parviflorum.
Common silverline female open wing
Common Silverline male open wing
References
- ^ Kaur, SA (2010). "Biology of common silverline, Spindasis vulcanus (fabricius) (Theclinae: Lycaenidae: Papilionoidea)". Journal of Entomological Research 34 (4): 337–339.
- ^ Soumyajit Chowdhury; Rahi Soren; Suvankar Patra (2009). "Ixora chinensis Lam.: a new host plant for Common Silverline Spindasis vulcanus Fabricius, (Lepidoptera: Lycaentdae) from West Bengal.". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 106 (3): 348–349.
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