Horaga onyx
| Common Onyx | |
|---|---|
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| Horaga onyx sardonyx Fruhstorfer, 1914. The Malaya subspecies. | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Horaga |
| Species: | H. onyx |
| Binomial name | |
| Horaga onyx (Moore, 1857). | |
The Common Onyx, Horaga onyx is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in Asia.
Range
The butterfly mostly seen in India (Western Ghats, Maharashtra southwards), Himachal Pradesh to Arunachal Pradesh and also in Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka.[1]
Status
Locally common.[1]
Larvae food plants
Coriaria nepalensis (Coriariaceae)[1]
Description
The butterfly has a wingspan of 27 to 33 mm. UP: For both sexes, blue with broad black apex, termen and costa. UN: The butterfly has dark yellowish or greenish brown with irregular and variable broad white discal band across their wings. UNF: Male - has a well defined brand along basal half of vein 1. UNH: well defined white band.[1]
Habit and habitat
Found on thick hilly forests, never found on plains. Their flight is weak, prefers not to come out in the open, but does bask on leaves. In the north it flies up to 2,000 m on the hills when it is on the wing from March to May and in September to October.[1]
See also
Cited references
- 1 2 3 4 5 Isaac Kehimkar (2008) The Book of Indian Butterflies Bombay Natural History Society, Oxford University press, Mumbai, Delhi, Calcutta, Chennai
References
- Beccaloni, George; Scoble, Malcolm; Kitching, Ian; Simonsen, Thomas; Robinson, Gaden; Pitkin, Brian; Hine, Adrian; Lyal, Chris. "The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex)". Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
- Bingham, C.T. (1907). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. II (1st ed.). London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd.
- Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
- "Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera".
- Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329.
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