Celastrina lavendularis

Plain hedge blue
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Celastrina
Species:
C. lavendularis
Binomial name
Celastrina lavendularis
(Moore, 1877)

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

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

The butterfly was earlier known as Lycaenopsis lavendularis Moore.[3]

Subspecies

  • Celastrina lavendularis limbata
    Celastrina lavendularis limbata
  • Celastrina lavendularis lyce
    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

References

  1. ^ a b Varshney, R. K.; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing. p. 140. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9.
  2. ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Celastrina lavendularis​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
  3. ^ a b Evans, W. H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. pp. 221–226, ser no H21.19.
  4. ^ "Celastrina lavendularis - Plain Hedge Blue -". Butterflies of India. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
  5. ^ Savela, Markku. "Celastrina lavendularis (Moore, 1877)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Archived from the original on April 3, 2018. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
  6. ^ Moore, Frederic (1880). The Lepidoptera of Ceylon. Vol. I. London: L. Reeve & co. p. 75.
  7. ^ Eliot, J. N. & Kawazoé, A. 1983. Blue butterflies of the Lycaenopsis group. British Museum (Natural History), London. ISBN 0-565-00860-9
  8. ^ Fruhstorfer, H., 1910. Neue Cyaniris-Rassen und Übersicht der bekannten Arten. Stettin. Ent. Ztg. . 71 (1909): 282-305
  9. ^ Courvoisier, L. G., 1912. Javanische Lycaeniden gesammelt von Edw. Jacobson. Tijdschr. Ent. 55: 15-19.
  10. ^ Grose-Smith, H., 1896. Descriptions of two new species of Oriental Lycaenidae. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 18:155


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