Jamides bochus, the dark cerulean,[1] is a small butterfly found in Indomalayan realm[1][2] that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. The species was first described by Caspar Stoll in 1782.
Male upperside, forewing: velvety jet black; base deep blue, beautifully metallic and shining, measured on the dorsum this colour occupies three-fourths of its length from base, its outer margin then curves upwards just past the apex of the cell, enters into the bases of interspaces 10, 11 and 12 and fills the whole of the cell. Hindwing: costal margin above subcostal vein and vein 7, and dorsal margin narrowly fuscous black, a medial longitudinal pale streak on the former; terminal margin narrowly edged with velvety black, inside which in interspaces 1 and 2 is a slender transverse whitish line, with an elongate irregular transverse black spot above it in interspace 1 and a more obscure similar spot in interspace 2; traces of such spots also are present in some specimens in the anterior interspaces. Cilia of both forewings and hindwings black; filamentous tail at apex of vein 2 black tipped with white. Underside: dark chocolate brown. Forewings and hindwings; transversely crossed by the following very slender white hues all more or less broken into short pieces: Forewing: a short pair one on each side of and parallel to the discocellulars, a pale streak along the discocellulars themselves; a single line in continuation of the outer of the discocellular lines, extends down to vein 1; an upper discal pair of lines that form a more or less catenulated (chain-like) short band extend from the costa to vein 3, the inner line of the two continued to vein 1; two more obscure subterminal and a single terminal line, the area enclosed between the subterminal lines and between them and the terminal line darker in the interspaces, giving the appearance of two obscure subterminal lines of spots edged inwardly and outwardly by white lines. Hindwing: crossed by nine very broken and irregular lines; tracing them from the costa downwards their middle short pieces are found to be shifted outwards and a few are short and not complete, the inner two are posteriorly bent abruptly upwards, the subterminal two are lunular and the terminal line nearly continuous; posteriorly between the subterminal pair of lines in interspace 1 there is a small black spot inwardly edged with dark ochraceous, and in interspace 2a much larger round black spot, both black spots are touched with metallic blue scales. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen black, the shafts of the antennae speckled with white; beneath: palpi, thorax and abdomen narrowly white down the middle.[3]
Female. Similar to the male generally but with the following differences: upperside, forewing: ground colour fuscous opaque black, not velvety black, blue basal area more restricted and not so deep a blue nor at all metallic. Hindwing: the black costal and terminal margins very much broader, the blue on the basal area consequently much restricted and of the same shade as the blue on the forewing; terminal margin with a subterminal anteriorly obsolescent series of spots of a shade darker than that of the terminal black area on which they are superposed; these spots posteriorly more or less distinctly encircled with slender lines of bluish white, anteriorly these lines are almost obsolete. Cilia of both forewings and hindwings and the filamentous short tail as in the male. Underside: similar to that of the cf but the ground colour generally paler and duller; the transverse white lines broader and more dearly defined. Antenna, head, thorax and abdomen as in the male.[3][4]
Peninsular India, but not in the very dry or desert tracts, Sri Lanka, Assam, Nepal, Myanmar, Tenasserim, the Andamans; extending in the Malayan subregion to Australia.[3]
"The larva which we have taken at Karwar in June is hardly distinguishable from that of Catochrysops pandava, Horsfield; it is, however, covered with minute hairs and is generally of an olive-green colour and without the reddish suffusion so generally noticed in C. pandava. The pupa is indistinguishable from that of C. pandava. The larva feeds on Xylia dolabrifornis, and also on the flowers of Butea frondosa."[3] Other food plants noted include Millettia peguensis.[5]
At Kozhikode, Kerala
At Kozhikode, Kerala
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Bingham, C. T. (1907). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Butterflies Volume II. London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd. pp. 398–400. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Swinhoe, Charles (1910–1911). Lepidoptera Indica: Volume VIII. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 58–60. 
Mating pair Jamides bochus, the dark cerulean, is a small butterfly found in Indomalayan realm that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. The species was first described by Caspar Stoll in 1782.
Wikispesies mempunyai maklumat berkaitan dengan Jamides bochus
Jamides bochus, atau Dark Caerulean, adalah kupu-kupu yang termasuk dalam kelompok keluarga Lycaenidae dan sub-keluarga Lycaeninae. Ia mempunyai lebar sayap sekitar 24–28 mm.[1]
Jamides bochus, atau Dark Caerulean, adalah kupu-kupu yang termasuk dalam kelompok keluarga Lycaenidae dan sub-keluarga Lycaeninae. Ia mempunyai lebar sayap sekitar 24–28 mm.
Jamides bochus is een vlinder uit de familie van de Lycaenidae.[1] De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1782 door Stoll.
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J. b. formosanus
雅波灰蝶（学名：Jamides bochus）也可以稱為琉璃波紋小灰蝶、雅灰蝶，"琉璃"與"波紋"，分別描述了本種翅膀背面與腹面的特徵呢。在命名上跟同種有些許重複的問題。[1]
雅波灰蝶的成蝶在台灣幾乎全年季節都能看到呢。[1] 雌蝶與雄蝶斑紋有相異，軀殼背側黑褐色，腹側白白的，前翅的翅形很接近三角形，外緣前緣呈現弧形。[2]
在台灣幼生期的時候會隨著季節改變菜單上的種類，但都是以豆科的花苞為主。雌蝶一次都會生產很多顆的卵，產卵後會從腹部分泌出泡沫膠狀物質來保護卵，該膠狀物質乾燥後會變硬以藉此來形成保護層保護卵。[1]
在台灣全島與澎湖、金門、馬祖、龜山島、綠島、蘭嶼等等台灣地區幾乎都有分佈。[1]
寄主食物 ；豆科蝶形花亞科多種植物的花苞為止，如葛藤、水黃皮、黃野百合等等。[1]
雅波灰蝶（学名：Jamides bochus）也可以稱為琉璃波紋小灰蝶、雅灰蝶，"琉璃"與"波紋"，分別描述了本種翅膀背面與腹面的特徵呢。在命名上跟同種有些許重複的問題。
