Celastrina lavendularis
| Plain hedge blue | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Celastrina |
| Species: | C. lavendularis |
| Binomial name | |
| Celastrina lavendularis (Moore, 1877) | |
Celastrina lavendularis (plain hedge blue)[1] is a small butterfly found in Sri Lanka[2] that belongs to the Lycaenids or blues family.
Description
Male upperside: uniform dark purplish-blue. Fore and hind wings: termen narrowly edged with black; costal margin of hind wing more broadly fuscous black. Underside: white with a light greyish-blue tint; markings for the most part pale brown, disposed much as in G. puspa, smaller, more slender; the transverse discal series of abbreviated lines or elongate spots on the fore wing more regular, the spots more evenly en echelon, the spot nearest the costa small and shifted well inwards. Hind wing: the black subcostal spot in the middle of interspace 7 subequal, not larger than the three subbasal spots ; the posterior discal series of spots bisinuous, none conspicuously larger than the others. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen fuscous black, the antennae ringed with white, the head and thorax clothed above with long bluish hairs; beneath: the palpi, thorax and abdomen greyish white.
Female upperside, fore wing: bluish purple, paler outwardly, in certain lights with a resplendent iridescence; costa and apex very broadly, termen somewhat more narrowly fuscous black. Hindwing: as in the fore wing iridescent bluish purple but uniform, not paler outwardly; the costal and terminal margins broadly and evenly fuscous black, this border on the termen with a series of superposed blue lunules. Underside: ground-colour and markings as in the male. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen similar to those of the male but the thorax and abdomen above not so dark.[3]
Taxonomy
The butterfly was earlier known as Lycaenopsis lavendularis Moore.[2]
Range
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.
External links
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- Asahi Correctly determined photos of C.lavendularis from the Philippines