Long-tailed Blue Butterfly / Pea Blue
Lampides boeticus
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Long-tailed Blue Butterfly / Pea Blue Lampides boeticus |
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The Long-tailed Blue butterfly can be distinguished from Lang's Short-tailed Blue by the broad white streak near the border of the underside wings. The Long-tailed Blue above left still has its long tails and "eye-spots" but the faded one above right has lost its long tail (to a bird or to wear and tear). |
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Lang's Short-tailed Blue Butterfly Leptotes pirithous |
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Lang's Short-tailed Blue butterfly doesn't have the broad white streak near the border of the underside wings visible in the Long-tailed Blue and, as its name suggests, has a somewhat shorter "tail". |
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Pair of Lang's Short-tailed Blue butterflies |
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Lang's male (photos above and below), a little similar to a dull Common Blue with eyespots and tail from the topside |
Lang's female (the one in the foreground) with iridescent blue patch on topside of wings |
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