Celastrina lavendularis

Taxobox
name = Plain Hedge Blue


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
superfamilia = Papilionoidea
familia = Lycaenidae
genus = "Celastrina"
species = "C. lavendularis"
binomial = "Celastrina lavendularis"
binomial_authority = (Moore, 1877)

The Plain Hedge Blue ("Celastrina lavendularis") [http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/lepindex/detail.dsml?TaxonNo=202249.0&UserID=&UserName=&&listPageURL=list%2edsml%3fSCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26sort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3dlavendularis%26recLimit%3d30&searchPageURL=index%2edsml%3fsort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3dlavendularis%26recLimit%3d30 Card for "lavendularis" in LepIndex. Accessed 14 October 2006.] ] is a small butterfly found in Sri LankaEvans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no H21.19, pp 221-226] 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.Bingham, C. T. 1907. Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Volume 2]

Taxonomy

The butterfly was earlier known as "Lycaenopsis lavendularis" Moore.

Range

It is found in Sri Lanka.

Cited references

ee also

*Lycaenidae
*List of butterflies of India
*List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)

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

* [http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~EY4Y-TKNM/philframe.html Asahi] Correctly determined photos of "C.lavendularis" from the Philippines