Lycaena violacea


Lycaena violacea is a small butterfly found in the Palearctic that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

Description

Upperside with deeper red ground colour than Lycaena splendens and Lycaena dabrerai Bálint, 1996. Upperside forewing postdiscal markings are well developed, underside forewing black spots are ringed white. Hindwing upperside, the ground colour is fuscous violet. The ground colour of the hindwing underside is brownish grey. The male genital valvae are larger than in L. splendens and L. dabrerai and lack a ventral extension.

Description from Seitz

— Specimens with the hindwing beneath dark bluish grey and the upperside slightly glossy violet are violaceus Stgr., from East Asia.

Biology

The larva on feeds on ''Rheum rhabarbarum''