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Friday, July 29, 2011

African Babul Blue (Azanus jesous gamra)

An uncommon butterfly of lowlands below 300m a.s.l. Much common in the dry zone and mostly appearing during the dry season of the year.  It is usually found settling at the end of a twig or thorn of a tree. It flies close to the ground and much fond of roadsides of the open areas or shrubs rather than jungles. Its food plants are Dichrostachys cinerea (අන්දර) and Vachellia nilotica (කටු කිහිරි)
African Babul blue also flies in Africa, Arabia and India. The larvae are attended by ants (Woodhouse L.G.O. The Butterfly fauna of Ceylon 1950)

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