Jamides caerulea

Jamides caerulea, the royal cerulean, is a small butterfly that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. It was described by Herbert Druce in 1873. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.[2][3]

Royal cerulean
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Jamides
Species:
J. caerulea
Binomial name
Jamides caerulea
Synonyms
  • Cupido caerulea H. Druce, 1873
  • Jamides caeruleus
  • Lampides bochides de Nicéville, 1891
  • Lampides kankena metallica Fruhstorfer, 1916
  • Lampides kankena selvagia Fruhstorfer, 1915

Subspecies
  • Jamides caerulea caerulea (Burma to Singapore, Sumatra, Borneo)
  • Jamides caerulea metallica (Fruhstorfer, 1916) (Java)
  • Jamides caerulea selvagia (Fruhstorfer, 1915) (Simalue)
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See also

References
  1. Druce, H. 1873. A list of the Collections of Diurnal Lepidoptera made by Mr. Lowe in Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873: 337–361, pls 32,33
  2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175.
  3. Savela, Markku (December 18, 2018). "Jamides caerulea (Druce, 1873)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved December 29, 2019.
  • Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
  • Gaonkar, Harish (1996). Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (including Sri Lanka) - A Biodiversity Assessment of a Threatened Mountain System. Bangalore, India: Centre for Ecological Sciences.
  • Gay, Thomas; Kehimkar, Isaac David; Punetha, Jagdish Chandra (1992). Common Butterflies of India. Nature Guides. Bombay, India: World Wide Fund for Nature-India by Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195631647.
  • Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation.
  • Kunte, Krushnamegh (2000). Butterflies of Peninsular India. India, A Lifescape. Hyderabad, India: Universities Press. ISBN 978-8173713545.
  • Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329.


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