Lycaena kasyapa

Species of butterfly

"Green copper" redirects here. For the pigment, see Verdigris.

Green copper

Female above, and male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Lycaenidae
Genus:  | Lycaena
Species:  |

L. kasyapa

Binomial name
Lycaena kasyapa

(Moore, 1865)

Lycaena kasyapa, the green copper, is a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. The species was first described by Frederic Moore in 1865.

## See also[edit]

* List of butterflies of India
* List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)

## References[edit]

* Evans, W. H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
* Gaonkar, Harish (1996). Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (including Sri Lanka) - A Biodiversity Assessment of a Threatened Mountain System. Bangalore, India: Centre for Ecological Sciences.
* Gay, Thomas; Kehimkar, Isaac David; Punetha, Jagdish Chandra (1992). Common Butterflies of India. Nature Guides. Bombay, India: World Wide Fund for Nature-India by Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195631647.
* Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation.
* Kunte, Krushnamegh (2000). Butterflies of Peninsular India. India, A Lifescape. Hyderabad, India: Universities Press. ISBN 978-8173713545.
* Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329.

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q3268320
* Wikispecies: Lycaena kasyapa
* BioLib: 988121
* BOLD: 499940
* CoL: 3WJ2S
* EoL: 261996
* GBIF: 5139603
* iNaturalist: 934591
* IRMNG: 10613056
* LepIndex: 200759

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