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Celastrina lavendularis

{{Short description|Species of butterfly}}

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| name = Plain hedge blue

| image = Celastrina lavendularis Moore, 1877 – Plain Hedge Blue from Parambikulam (5).jpg

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| taxon = Celastrina lavendularis

| authority = (Moore, 1877)

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Celastrina lavendularis, the plain hedge blue,{{LepIndex |id=202249 |access-date=April 19, 2018}} is a small butterfly found in Sri Lanka,{{cite book |last1=Evans |first1=W. H. |author-link=William Harry Evans |title=The Identification of Indian Butterflies |edition=2nd |location=Mumbai, India |publisher=Bombay Natural History Society |year=1932 |pages=221–226, ser no H21.19}} India,{{Cite book|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287980260 |title=A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India |last1=Varshney |first1=R. K. |last2=Smetacek|first2=Peter|publisher=Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing |year=2015|isbn=978-81-929826-4-9|location=New Delhi|pages=140|doi=10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164}}{{cite web |url=http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sp/865/Celastrina-lavendularis |title=Celastrina lavendularis - Plain Hedge Blue - |website=Butterflies of India |access-date=2017-11-03}} and across the Indomalayan realm{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/lycaenidae/polyommatinae/celastrina/#lavendularis |title=Celastrina lavendularis (Moore, 1877) |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |access-date=June 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180403173654/http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/lycaenidae/polyommatinae/celastrina/#lavendularis |archive-date=April 3, 2018 |url-status=dead }} that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

Description

{{Blockquote|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.|author=Frederic Moore|source=The Lepidoptera of Ceylon. Vol. I{{Cite book |title=The Lepidoptera of Ceylon. Vol. I |last=Moore|first=Frederic|author-link=Frederic Moore|publisher=L. Reeve & co.|year=1880|location=London|pages=75|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/lepidopteraofcey01moor#page/89/mode/1up}}}}

Taxonomy

The butterfly was earlier known as Lycaenopsis lavendularis Moore.

Subspecies

File:CelastrinaLavendularisLimbataMUpUnAC1.jpg|Celastrina lavendularis limbata

File:CelastrinaLavendularisLyceMUpUnAC1.jpg|Celastrina lavendularis lyce

  • Celastrina lavendularis aroana Eliot and Kawazoe, 1983Eliot, J. N. & Kawazoé, A. 1983. Blue butterflies of the Lycaenopsis group. British Museum (Natural History), London. ISBN 0-565-00860-9 Papua New Guinea
  • Celastrina lavendularis chloe Eliot and Kawazoe, 1983 Moluccas
  • Celastrina lavendularis epicharma (Fruhstorfer, 1910)Fruhstorfer, H., 1910. Neue Cyaniris-Rassen und Übersicht der bekannten Arten. Stettin. Ent. Ztg. . 71 (1909): 282-305 Flores
  • Celastrina lavendularis floresana (Courvoisier, 1912)Courvoisier, L. G., 1912. Javanische Lycaeniden gesammelt von Edw. Jacobson. Tijdschr. Ent. 55: 15-19. 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)Grose-Smith, H., 1896. Descriptions of two new species of Oriental Lycaenidae. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 18:155 Celebes
  • Celastrina lavendularis placidina (Fruhstorfer, 1917) Sumatra

See also

References

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  • {{cite web |url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/ |title=The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex) |last1=Beccaloni |first1=George |last2=Scoble |first2=Malcolm |last3=Kitching |first3=Ian |last4=Simonsen |first4=Thomas |last5=Robinson |first5=Gaden |last6=Pitkin |first6=Brian |last7=Hine |first7=Adrian |last8=Lyal |first8=Chris |publisher=Natural History Museum, London |access-date=2016-10-15}}
  • {{cite book |last1=Evans |first1=W. H. |author-link=William Harry Evans |title=The Identification of Indian Butterflies |edition=2nd |location=Mumbai, India |publisher=Bombay Natural History Society |year=1932}}

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Category:Fauna of Pakistan

Category:Butterflies of Asia

Category:Butterflies described in 1877

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