Whilst
birding a number of large pivot irrigation fields in the Haradh area I cam
across a small colony of Dark Grass Blue Zizeeria
karsandra also known as Asian Grass Blue. It is a small butterfly found in the
Arabian Peninsula in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Oman as well as the
Southern Mediterranean, in a broad band to India, Sri Lanka, the Andaman and
Nicobar Islands, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, New
Guinea and northern and eastern Australia. They are abundant throughout the
northern part of Saudi Arabia excepting the boarder are with Jordon. They are
weak flyers keeping low and are not strong migrants. Colour and size varies
probably depending on food source availability.
