''Surendra quercetorum'', the common acacia blue, is a species of

lycaenid Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfl ...

or blue butterfly found in the

Indomalayan realm The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indi ...

(in Simla Hills - Assam, Burma, South Bihaar, China, Vietnam). The larvae feed on ''

Acacia pennata ''Senegalia pennata'' ( en, climbing wattle, vi, rau thối, th, ชะอม ''cha-om'', my, ဆူးပုပ်, ; km, ស្អំ; Meiteilon : ''khang'', Thadou-Kuki: khang-khu, Paite Language: Khangkhuh, Mizo: khanghu, Hmar: ''khangh ...

'' and ''

Acacia caesia ''Acacia'', commonly known as the wattles or acacias, is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa and Australasia. The genus na ...

''.

Subspecies

* ''Surendra quercetorum quercetorum'' Moore, 1857 (S.Yunnan, Uttarakhand to N.E. India) * ''Surendra quercetorum neritos'' Fruhstorfer, 1907 (Vietnam) Image:SurendraQuercetorumMaleUpFullAC1.JPG, Male, upperside from northern

Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ...

Image:SurendraQuercetorumMaleUnFullAC1.JPG, Male, underside from northern Thailand Image:QuercetorumMFUpUn 526 527 AC1.jpg, Male and female Courvoisier Collection, Basel

References

External links

* * Arhopalini Butterflies described in 1857 Butterflies of Asia {{Theclinae-stub