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Surendra vivarna

Surendra vivarna, the acacia blue, is a species of lycaenid or hairstreak butterfly found in Sri Lanka, India and the Indonesian islands as far as Sulawesi.

Range
Its range is similar to that of its genus, Surendra, except it is not recorded from China or the Philippines proper (where it is replaced by S. maniliana), but from Balabac, Palawan and the Calamian Islands. ==Description==
Subspecies
Surendra vivarna amisena Hewitson, 1862, (South Burma, Thailand, Malaya, and Sumatra) • Surendra vivarna palowna Staudinger, 1889, (Borneo) • Surendra vivarna samina Fruhstorfer, 1904, (Sulawesi) • Surendra vivarna agdistis Fruhstorfer (Nias) • Surendra vivarna biplagiata Butler, 1883 (southern India) • Surendra vivarna latimargo Moore, 1879 (Andamans) • Surendra vivarna discalis Moore (Sri Lanka) ==Food plants==
Food plants
Fabaceae (Acacia, Albizia, Paraserianthes) and it is facultatively attended by various ants. Image:SurendraVivarnaAC4.jpg|About to emerge Image:SurendraVivarnaAC5.jpg|Wings enlarging Image:SurendraVivarnaMaleUnFullAC1.JPG|Male, underside, North Sulawesi Image:SurendraVivarnaMaleUpFullAC1.JPG|Male, upperside, North Sulawesi Image:SurendraVivarnaFemaleUnFullAC1.JPG|Female, underside, North Sulawesi Image:SurendraVivarnaFemaleUpFullAC1.JPG|Female, underside, North Sulawesi Image:SurendraVivarnaFemaleUpFullAC2.JPG|Female, upperside, West Brunei File:SaminaMFUpUn 530 AC1.jpg|Male and female S.v.samina File:VivarnaMUpUn 527 528 ac1.jpg |From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel, Switzerland ==See also==
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