Dark Grass Blue

Zizeeria karsandra · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Lycaenidae

Also called: Spotted Grass-blue

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Dark Grass Blue
Photo: Roger Rittmaster, CC BY

The Dark Grass Blue has purple-brown upper wings and a patterned underside with black spots edged in white. It lives from the southern Mediterranean across South and Southeast Asia to northern and eastern Australia. Its larvae feed on a variety of legumes such as alfalfa, clover and tribulus.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Upperside is purple-brown. Underside is greyish brown with distinct black spots surrounded by white, plus rows of pale lunules on both fore and hind wings.

Source: Wikipedia

What it eats

Recorded food plants include several legumes such as Zornia diphylla, Amaranthus species, Melilotus indica, Medicago sativa, Trifolium alexandrinum, Glinus lotoides, Tribulus cistoides and Tribulus terrestris.

Source: Wikipedia

Life cycle

It belongs to the lycaenid (blues) family, tribe Polyommatini.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

Its native range matches the same broad band from the southern Mediterranean through South and Southeast Asia to northern and eastern Australia.

Source: Wikipedia

More photos

Dark Grass Blue photo 2
Photo: Vihansith Kulatunga, CC BY-SA
Dark Grass Blue photo 3
Photo: portioid, CC BY
Dark Grass Blue photo 4
Photo: Wang.QG, CC BY
Dark Grass Blue photo 5
Photo: Jagdish Singh Negi, CC BY

Same family (Lycaenidae)

Common BlueCommon BluePolyommatus icarusGray HairstreakGray HairstreakStrymon melinusSmall CopperSmall CopperLycaena phlaeasEastern Tailed-BlueEastern Tailed-BlueEveres comyntasHolly BlueHolly BlueCelastrina argiolusLesser Grass BlueLesser Grass BlueZizina otis

Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zizeeria_karsandra

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Text written 2026-10-24 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.

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