Celastrina iynteana
| Jyntea Hedge Blue | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Celastrina |
| Species: | C. iynteana |
| Binomial name | |
| Celastrina iynteana (De Nicéville, 1883) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Lycaenopsis jynteana | |
The Jyntea Hedge Blue (Celastrina iynteana)[1] is a small butterfly found in India[2] that belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues family.
Description
Male Upperside: purplish-blue or lilac of a deeper shade than in C. dilecta. Forewing: a much broader dusky black terminal margin that widens at apex and is somewhat diffuse along its inner edge. In specimens of the dry-season brood there is a diffuse but prominent discal white patch. Hind wing: costa dusky brownish; termen with a comparatively narrow black border edged on the inner side by a more or less obscure subterminal series o£ black spots, each spot centred in a background which is slightly paler than the lilac ground-oolour. Underside: pale greyish-white or bluish-white, with the usual pale brown markings which are small, delicate and regular. Antenna, head, thorax and abdomen blackish brown, antennae ringed with white; beneath: palpi, thorax and abdomen white.
Female: " Upperside fore wing: all but the middle of the disc (which is white glossed with iridescent blue black; a discocellular black spot. Hind wing: blackish; white in the middle glossed with blue; along the veins irrorated with black scales; a submarginal series of pale lunules. Underside: both wings marked exactly as in the male." (De Nicéville)[3]
Taxonomy
The butterfly was earlier known as Lycaenopsis jynteana (De Nicéville).[2]
Range
It is found from Sikkim in India to Dawnas.[2]
Cited references
See also
References
- Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). (2003). The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex [accessed 14 October 2006].
- Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.