Zizula hylax (Fabricius, 1775)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Lycaenidae → subfamily Polyommatinae → tribe Polyommatini → genus Zizula → species Zizula hylax

Species name(s)

Zizula hylax (Fabricius, 1775) = Papilio hylax Fabricius, 1775 = Lycaena gaika Trimen, 1862 = Lycaena mylica Guenée, 1862 = Lycaena cleodora Walker, 1870 = Lycaena perparva Saalmüller, 1884 = Zizera horii Matsumura, 1931 = Pithecops hylax = Zizera gaika = Zizeeria gaika = Zizula gaika = Zizula hylax hylax = Papilio donovani Kirby, 1800 = Lycaena gaika Trimen, 1862 = Lycaena lysimon Trimen, 1866 = Lycaena mylica Guenée, 1863. [9, 187]

The Tiny Grass Blue.

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Detailed information with references

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Wingspan 11-15 mm. Male, UP is purplish blue with broad dark borders (slightly over 1.0 mm); UN is brownish gray, FW without a cell spot, with a spot in space 11 above the middle of cell; HW postdiscal spot in space 6 is in line with those in 5-7. While that ofZizina otisshifted inwardly and out of line with the spots in spaces 5 and 7. Female is pale brown. Subsp. pygmaeais slightly smaller and duller colored wings than inhylax. [144].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Hygrophila erecta, Ruellia tuberrosa, Clerodendrum incisum [144].

Subspecies of Zizula hylax

Zizula hylax attenuata (Lucas, 1890). [9]
Z. h. dampierensis (Rothschild, 1915). [9]
Z. h. hylax. [9]
Z. h. pygmaea (Snellen, 1876). [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photo: Fedor Ovechkin.

Text data: Svetlana Shchavelina.

References

[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[144] Pisuth Ek-Amnuay "Butterflies of Thailand". 2nd Revised edition. Bangkok, 2012
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org