الفراشة الصفراء ذات البقعتين البنفسجيتين

Uncommon

Male holds territories near water, resting on Origanum syriacum (Labiatae).

Size: 45-60 mm. Unmistakable with its straw basal colour and blue spots on the upperside of the hindwing. Larva is dark brown or grey with a broad dorsal stripe formed of minute white and blue spots, spines black.

Mainly Upper Egypt and the Sinai. AOO = 86 km2. EOO = 173,000 km2. 6 locations

Widespread (African tropics, Arabia, India to Thailand)

Arid wadis

Least Concern

Two generations per year.

25 records. Latest in 2001 (South Sinai)

Resident and migrant

Attributed to the Africa subspecies cebrene Trimen.

May-October

Host-plants: Acanthaceae- possibly Barleria in South East Egypt, probably Blepharis edulis in Sinai.