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Lime Blue
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Lime Blue

Chilades lajus

Chilades lajus, the lime blue, is a small butterfly found in India, Ceylon, Myanmar, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Hainan, Mangulam Island, Sulawesi and the Philippines that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 146696.