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Butterflies of Zihuatanejo

SUPERFAMILY PAPILIONOIDEA

Cassius Blue

Leptotes cassius

Leptotes cassius, the Cassius blue or tropical striped blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in North America in Florida including the Keys, Texas south through the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America to South America. The wingspan is 20–35 mm. The caterpillars feed natively on Fabaceae. Food plants on record are Amorpha crenulata, woolly rattlepod (Crotalaria incana), Galactia regularis and lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus). It can also successfully develop feeding on Cape leadwort (Plumbago auriculata) or doctorbush (P. scandens).

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptotes_cassius, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

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