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Zintha hintza (Blue-eyed Pierrot)

Synonyms: Lycaena hintza; Lycaena rosimon

Wikipedia Abstract

Zintha is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. It is monotypic, with the only species being Zintha hintza, the Blue-eyed pierrot, Blue pied pierrot or Hintza blue. The pied pierrots proper are the closely related genus Tuxentius, however, but like Zintha they were formerly included in Castalius. The wingspan is 24–28 mm for males and 24–27 mm for females. Adults are on wing from September to April. The larvae feed on Ziziphus species, including Ziziphus zeheriana and Ziziphus mucronata.
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Infraspecies

Prey / Diet

Ziziphus jujuba (common jujube)[1]
Ziziphus mauritiana (Indian jujube)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0