Jewelled Grass-blue

Freyeria putli · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Lycaenidae

Also called: Black-spotted Grass Jewel, Grass Jewel, Oriental Grass Jewel, Small Grass Jewel

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Jewelled Grass-blue
Photo: Rod Lowther, CC BY

The Jewelled Grass-blue is a small butterfly found in Ceylon, Myanmar, the Maldives, India and Australia. Males have violet-brown uppersides with faint black spots on the hindwing and grey-white fringe hairs. The underside is brown with distinctive white-bordered spots and a row of six metallic-green speckled black conical spots on the hindwing margin.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Upperside is violet-brown with indistinct marginal pale-bordered black spots on the hindwing.

Source: Wikipedia

Size

Male butterflies have a violet-brown upperside and grey-white cilia.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

It is a small butterfly that occurs in Ceylon, Myanmar, the Maldives, India and Australia.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

Its range includes Ceylon, Myanmar, the Maldives, India and Australia.

Source: Wikipedia

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/Freyeria_putli

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Text written 2026-10-23 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.

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