This hovers around quickly and is often hard to shoot pictures. On flight, we see lovely purple wings as it flutters them, but when it sits folding wings up, we see just the pale brown. Which is this butterfly? I found a dead specimen and so was able to photograph while the ants were having their bite.
It's a hairstreak or blue of some type.
This page might be of interest to you, and may help you ID it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_butterflies_of_India_(Lycaenidae)
This message was edited May 2, 2009 4:46 PM
Maybe genus Arhopala, but there are 200 species...
