Common posy

The common posy is a small lycaenid. Males show dark brown forewings and iridescent blue hindwings, while females are plain dark brown with only a faint orange patch in some individuals. On the underside both sexes share orange forewings and white hindwings marked with bold black bands, with blue scaling and black centred white tails along the tornal edge.

Caterpillars are polyphagous, feeding on the young leaves of several unrelated plants, and occur in green or pink forms. Adults bask with their wings open flat in sunlit clearings of primary and secondary rainforest, and fly with a distinctive hopping motion.