#3162 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Pale Grass Blue
Pseudozizeeria maha
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what is it?
Pseudozizeeria maha , the pale grass blue , is a small butterfly found in Asia that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 26,939 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Pale Grass Blue
- scientific name
- Pseudozizeeria maha
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Lycaenidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 26,939
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 145642, Wikidata Q919575, GBIF 1921150, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.