Celastrina lavendularis
| Plain hedge blue | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Celastrina |
| Species: | C. lavendularis
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| Binomial name | |
| Celastrina lavendularis (Moore, 1877)
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Celastrina lavendularis, the plain hedge blue,[1][2] is a small butterfly found in Sri Lanka,[3] India,[1][4] and across the Indomalayan realm[5] that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.
Description
[edit | edit source]Male. Upperside dark lavender-blue, with an extremely narrow black outer marginal border. Female paler, and of a purple lavender-blue. Forewing with the base of the costa and an outer band black. Hindwing with black anterior border and marginal row of prominent pale-bordered black spots. Cilia white, with inner black border. Underside greyish-white. Forewing with dusky-black streak at end of the cell, a discal series of oblique spots, and marginal row of small spots enclosed by a dentated line. Hindwing with three black subbasal spots, some specimens with a smaller spot at base of subcostal and another at base of lower median vein, a curved series of seven discal spots, and a marginal row of spots enclosed by a dentate line.
— Frederic Moore, The Lepidoptera of Ceylon. Vol. I[6]
Taxonomy
[edit | edit source]The butterfly was earlier known as Lycaenopsis lavendularis Moore.[3]
Subspecies
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Celastrina lavendularis limbata
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Celastrina lavendularis lyce
- Celastrina lavendularis aroana Eliot and Kawazoe, 1983[7] Papua New Guinea
- Celastrina lavendularis chloe Eliot and Kawazoe, 1983 Moluccas
- Celastrina lavendularis epicharma (Fruhstorfer, 1910)[8] Flores
- Celastrina lavendularis floresana (Courvoisier, 1912)[9] Java
- Celastrina lavendularis gadara (Fruhstorfer, 1910) Moluccas
- Celastrina lavendularis hermesianax (Fruhstorfer, 1910) Philippines
- Celastrina lavendularis himilcon (Fruhstorfer, 1909) Taiwan
- Celastrina lavendularis isabella Corbet, 1937. Malaya
- Celastrina lavendularis lavendularis (Moore, 1877). Sri Lanka (type)
- Celastrina lavendularis limbata (Moore, 1879).India (type)
- Celastrina lavendularis lyce (Grose-Smith, 1896)[10] Celebes
- Celastrina lavendularis placidina (Fruhstorfer, 1917) Sumatra
See also
[edit | edit source]References
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- ^ Eliot, J. N. & Kawazoé, A. 1983. Blue butterflies of the Lycaenopsis group. British Museum (Natural History), London. ISBN 0-565-00860-9
- ^ Fruhstorfer, H., 1910. Neue Cyaniris-Rassen und Übersicht der bekannten Arten. Stettin. Ent. Ztg. . 71 (1909): 282-305
- ^ Courvoisier, L. G., 1912. Javanische Lycaeniden gesammelt von Edw. Jacobson. Tijdschr. Ent. 55: 15-19.
- ^ Grose-Smith, H., 1896. Descriptions of two new species of Oriental Lycaenidae. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 18:155
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