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Purple Cerulean
Jamides phaseli
Jamides phaseli, the dark cerulean, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It was described by Gervase Frederick Mathew in 1889. It is found in north-eastern Australia, from Cape York to south-eastern Queensland, as well as in the Northern Territory. It is also present on the Torres Strait Islands.
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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 368185.