The Common Caerulean, Jamides celeno aelianus (Fabricius)

This is a common butterfly in all habitat, found often on flowering roadside shrubs as well as open places on the forest's fringes. They can be locally abundant when its food plant, Saracca is growing in the vicinity.

Habitat indicator

RSP	WV	PG	VF	FTR	SC	LWDF	LWPF	LMEF	UMN	MN
x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x

Frequency observation chart: (S marks the usual occurences, H marks an unusually high occurence, F for first record)

2013
Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct
		S	S	S	S	S	S

2013		2014
Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct
S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S

2014

2015

Nov

Dec

Jan

Feb

Mac

Apr

May

June

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

S

S

S

S

S

S

S

S

S

S

S

S

S

S

2016
Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
S1	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S

2017
Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S

2018
Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
S

2019
Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

12 August 2013 @ 13:35

Above 3 photos 13 August 2013 @ 15:16 from a completely different location.

11 May 2013 @ 10:40

27 December 2013 @ 13:16

Above 2 photos 13 Apr 2014 @ 10:38

Above photos of a mating pair: 26 Jul 2014 @ 12:15

10 Aug 2014 @ 11:38

03 Jan 2015 @ 14:36

Above photos 04 Apr 2015 @ 12:08

a male from S11: 31 Oct 2015 @ 10:26

16 Jan 2016 @ 13:29

A beautiful male specimen puddling: 06 jan 2018 @ 13:48

03 April 2021 @ 14:13

To consult the voucher collection: http://nlliew66butterflies2.blogspot.com/2015/05/jamides-celeno-cramer-1773-aelianus.html

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Below are surprising find of a dry-season form (?) in the midst of the wet season in 2015:

11 Dec 2015 @ 11:13 (S4)