The Peablue, Lampides boeticus (L.)

This is a locally common insect of the roadside and wastelands besides plantations where its host plant Crotalaria grows.

Habitat indicator

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

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

2013
Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct

2013		2014
Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct
		S10(F)		S10

2014

2015

Nov

Dec

Jan

Feb

Mac

Apr

May

June

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

S10

S8

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

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

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

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

2020
Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

2021
Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

Above picture of a male visiting a flowering bush by a bus stand. 30 Jan 2014 @ 10:48

Above photos of a male: 06 Dec 2014 @ 10:18 - 10:20

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Above 2 photos from an elevation above 6500 feet: 14 Dec 2014@11:35. The insect was decidedly much larger and more defined in colour.

 The ovum is disc-shaped with pits much in the general manner of Polyommatinae, laid on the stem of Crotolaria juncea nearing flowering structures.

 The final instar caterpillar 

the pupa