Common Line Blue- (Prosotas nora superdates)

Common Line Blue- (Prosotas nora superdates)

Physical Description Of An Adult Butterfly: 

The male Prosotas noras upperside purple or purplish with a dark tint. Some specimens brown with a slight purplish shine. The forewing and hindwing nearly same, hindwing tornal near the tail contain a black spot with orange border. In interspace 2 the most specimen have a subternimal black spot.  

 Both upperwing contain slender black anteciliary lines. The hindwing in addition with the costal and dorsal margins paler. 

The underside brownish, grayish or pale dull brown. 

The female Prosotas noras upperside brownish, sometimes blackish 

The underside is ground colour paler and brighter than the male, the markings similar but more neatly and generally more clearly defined, both forewings and hindwings in most of the specimens have a white terminal line before the anteciliary dark line.

Scientific Classification Of Common Line Blue:

Kingdom:    Animalia

Phylum:      Euarthropoda

Class:          Insecta

Order:         Lepidoptera

Family:       Pieridae

Genus:        Prosotas.

Species:      Prosotas nora.

Bio-data Of Common Line Blue Butterfly-

Genus: Prosotas.
Species: Prosotas nora.
Subspecies: Superdates.
Wingspan: 18-25mm.

Local Distribution:

The  Prosotas noras is widely distributed in Bangladesh. Its commonly found in Asia and Australia.
Habitually the   Prosotas noras found in homestead vegetarians, farmlands, agricultural fields, roadside bushes, brick fields, gardens, hill tracks and forest area.