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Pale Grass Blue

Pseudozizeeria maha

Pale Grass Blue (Pseudozizeeria maha) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj

Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized

Scientific name
Pseudozizeeria maha
Family
Lycaenidae, order Lepidoptera
Group
Insect

A small, shy blue of grassy lawns.

  • Spot it Tiny, pale blue above and grey with spots below.
  • Home Lawns and grass.
  • Food web Caterpillars eat low plants like wood sorrel.
  • Why it matters Pollinates lawn flowers, and its caterpillars feed on low herbs and become food for birds.

Read more: Pseudozizeeria maha on Wikipedia

Sources and credits

Records and field notes

  • RajasthanDevendra Bhardwaj has 1 verified record of this species on iNaturalist in 2020, in Jaipur.[20]

Sources

  1. Devendra Bhardwaj. iNaturalist observations and notes, with place and date (inaturalist.org/people/devendrabhardwaj) (field record). The observer's own dated records and notes, with places. Statements in his notes are his own and were not independently checked by KJVF.
  2. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and GBIF species data (family, order, Hindi names, IUCN category) (database). Open biodiversity data. Used for classification, Hindi common names and the IUCN category where one is given.
  3. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (opening lines of each species article, CC BY-SA 4.0). The link on each entry goes to the article (reference). Not peer reviewed. Only the opening description is used, and statements about origin or medicinal use are left out.
  4. Short introductions and key points written with AI help (Google Gemini and Claude) and checked against GBIF where possible (reference). AI-assisted text for general readers. Please check important details before relying on them.

The tag before each record shows the place it was checked for.

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