Medium
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ma on shan (Google, OSM)
Sha Tin, Tai Po, HK
22.4263426974, 114.2306515132
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Description

Pale grass blue: very small about 2cm

reference: http://www.nbaii.res.in/Pestsofcrops/Zizeeria-maha-ossa.html

Oct. 10, 2012 19:59:41 +0800
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Pale Grass Blue - Photo (c) Zorac&Visar, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
loarie's ID Pale Grass Blue (Pseudozizeeria maha)
Posted by loarie 7 months ago (Flag)
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Catalog of Life has Zizeeria maha as a synonym of Pale Grass Blue (Pseudozizeeria maha), it doesn't have any subspecies. Do you know what the state of the taxonomy of this group?

Posted by loarie 7 months ago (Flag)
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Pale Grass Blue - Photo (c) Zorac&Visar, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
sterling's ID Pale Grass Blue (Pseudozizeeria maha)
Posted by sterling 7 months ago (Flag)
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You are right with Pseudozizeeria maha. The reference I found was wrong. Looks like there is also a "Pseudozizeeria maha argia" and a "Pseudozizeeria maha argia Menetries" -http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/P/Pseudozizeeria_maha_argia/ These little fellows seem to pop up on a lot of japanese listings. Its very possible that Pseudozizeeria maha argia Menetries is what I found. Like mine it has a white band around the outer edge of the wing as compared to the darker band of the indian variety which seam pop up more on the Chinese sites. Here is a site with photo reference of Pseudozizeeria maha argia Menetries http://www2.ucatv.ne.jp/~papilio.sun/photogallery/sijimi/yamato/yamato.html

I mislabeled this once so I will just go with the more general ID for now, but l wouldn't be surprised if its argia.

Posted by sterling 7 months ago (Flag)
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Pale Grass Blue - Photo (c) Zorac&Visar, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
sterling's ID Pale Grass Blue (Pseudozizeeria maha)
Pale Grass Blue - Photo (c) Zorac&Visar, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
loarie's ID Pale Grass Blue (Pseudozizeeria maha)

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