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.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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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Description edit
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
The butterfly was earlier known as Lycaenopsis lavendularis Moore.[3]
Subspecies edit
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Celastrina lavendularis limbata -
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
References edit
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Celastrina lavendularis - Plain Hedge Blue -". Butterflies of India. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
- ^ Savela, Markku. "Celastrina lavendularis (Moore, 1877)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Archived from the original on April 3, 2018. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
- ^ Moore, Frederic (1880). The Lepidoptera of Ceylon. Vol. I. London: L. Reeve & co. p. 75.
- ^ 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
- Beccaloni, George; Scoble, Malcolm; Kitching, Ian; Simonsen, Thomas; Robinson, Gaden; Pitkin, Brian; Hine, Adrian; Lyal, Chris. "The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex)". Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
- Evans, W. H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.