The Blue Quaker is a small butterfly

Butterfly

A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured...

 found in India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 that belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues

Lycaenidae

The Lycaenidae are the second-largest family of butterflies, with about 6000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies...

 family.

Description

Male upperside- dark brown; medial two-thirds from base to disc of both fore and hind wings glossed with brilliant shining blue. Underside: very similar to the underside of Pithecops hylax

Pithecops hylax

The Forest Quaker is a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues family.-Description:Male upperside: brown, in fresh specimens generally uniform, in some slightly paler along a posterior area from base outwards on the fore wing. This is more commnu in the female than in...

, but on both fore and hind wings the transverse outer postdiscal line is ochraceous rather than pale brown; on the hind wing the inner postdiscal series of transverse spots is wanting and the large round subcostal black spot placed further towards the apex of the wing. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen much as in P. hylax.

Female Upperside: blackish brown without any suffusion of blue. Underside: similar to that of the male - Cilia of fore wing pale, of hind wing white.