Celastrina lavendularis explained

Celastrina lavendularis, the plain hedge blue, is a small butterfly found in Sri Lanka,^[1] India,^{[2] [3]} and across the Indomalayan realm^[4] that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

Taxonomy

The butterfly was earlier known as Lycaenopsis lavendularis Moore.^[1]

Subspecies

• Celastrina lavendularis aroana Eliot and Kawazoe, 1983 ^[5] Papua New Guinea
• Celastrina lavendularis chloe Eliot and Kawazoe, 1983 Moluccas
• Celastrina lavendularis epicharma (Fruhstorfer, 1910) ^[6] Flores
• Celastrina lavendularis floresana (Courvoisier, 1912) ^[7] 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) ^[8] Celebes
• Celastrina lavendularis placidina (Fruhstorfer, 1917) Sumatra

See also

• List of butterflies of India
• List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)

References

• Web site: The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex) . Beccaloni . George . Scoble . Malcolm . Kitching . Ian . Simonsen . Thomas . Robinson . Gaden . Pitkin . Brian . Hine . Adrian . Lyal . Chris . . 2016-10-15.
• Book: Evans . W. H. . William Harry Evans . The Identification of Indian Butterflies . 2nd . Mumbai, India . . 1932.

Notes and References

1. Book: Evans . W. H. . William Harry Evans . The Identification of Indian Butterflies . 2nd . Mumbai, India . . 1932 . 221–226, ser no H21.19.
2. Book: A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India . Varshney . R. K. . Smetacek. Peter. Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing . 2015. 978-81-929826-4-9. New Delhi. 140. 10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164.
3. Web site: Celastrina lavendularis - Plain Hedge Blue - . Butterflies of India . 2017-11-03.
4. Web site: Savela . Markku . Celastrina lavendularis (Moore, 1877) . Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms . June 30, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180403173654/http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/lycaenidae/polyommatinae/celastrina/#lavendularis . April 3, 2018 . dead .
5. Eliot, J. N. & Kawazoé, A. 1983. Blue butterflies of the Lycaenopsis group. British Museum (Natural History), London. ISBN 0-565-00860-9
6. Fruhstorfer, H., 1910. Neue Cyaniris-Rassen und Übersicht der bekannten Arten. Stettin. Ent. Ztg. . 71 (1909): 282-305
7. Courvoisier, L. G., 1912. Javanische Lycaeniden gesammelt von Edw. Jacobson. Tijdschr. Ent. 55: 15-19.
8. Grose-Smith, H., 1896. Descriptions of two new species of Oriental Lycaenidae. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 18:155