Curetis siva

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| name = Shiva's sunbeam

| image = Sunbeam_Butterfly06270.jpg

| taxon = Curetis siva

| authority = Evans, 1954.

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Curetis siva,{{cite journal|first=W. H.|last=Evans|authorlink=William Harry Evans|title=A Revision of the Genus Curetis. (LEPIDOPTERA: LYCAENIDAE)|journal=Entomologist|date=1954|volume=87|issue=9|pages=190–194}} the Shiva sunbeam, is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in Asia.{{Cite book|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287980260|title=A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India|last1=R.K.|first1=Varshney|last2=Smetacek|first2=Peter|publisher=Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi|year=2015|isbn=978-81-929826-4-9|location=New Delhi|pages=88|doi=10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164}}{{cite journal|first=J. N.|last=Eliot|authorlink=John Nevill Eliot|title=Notes on the genus Curetis Hübner (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae)|journal=Lepidoptera Science|date=1990|volume=41|issue=4|pages=01–225|accessdate=9 May 2018|url=https://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110007707855}}

It can be distinguished by the underside hindwing stria in space 6 almost in line with stria in space 5. Female with white areas.

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