Celastrina lavendularis
Species of butterfly
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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.
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| Plain hedge blue | |
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| C. l. limbata, Laos | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Celastrina |
| Species: | C. lavendularis |
| Binomial name | |
| Celastrina lavendularis (Moore, 1877) | |
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
Subspecies
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