''Celastrina lavendularis'', the plain hedge blue,
butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises ...
found in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
,India
India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the ...
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Description
Taxonomy
The butterfly was earlier known as ''Lycaenopsis lavendularis'' Moore
Moore may refer to:
People
* Moore (surname)
** List of people with surname Moore
* Moore Crosthwaite (1907–1989), a British diplomat and ambassador
* Moore Disney (1765–1846), a senior officer in the British Army
* Moore Powell (died c. 1 ...
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Subspecies
File:CelastrinaLavendularisLimbataMUpUnAC1.jpg, ''Celastrina lavendularis limbata''
File:CelastrinaLavendularisLyceMUpUnAC1.jpg, ''Celastrina lavendularis lyce
*''Celastrina lavendularis aroana'' Eliot and Kawazoe, 1983 Papua New Guinea
*''Celastrina lavendularis chloe'' Eliot and Kawazoe, 1983 Moluccas
*''Celastrina lavendularis epicharma'' (Fruhstorfer, 1910) Flores
*''Celastrina lavendularis floresana'' (Courvoisier, 1912) 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) [Grose-Smith, H., 1896. Descriptions of two new species of Oriental Lycaenidae. ''Ann. Mag. nat. Hist''. (6) 18:155] Celebes
*''Celastrina lavendularis placidina'' (Fruhstorfer, 1917) Sumatra
See also
*List of butterflies of India
The following is a list of the butterflies of India.
India has extremely diverse terrain, climate and vegetation, which comprises extremes of heat cold, desert and jungle, of low-lying plains and the highest mountains, of dryness and dampness, is ...
*List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)
This is a list of the butterflies of India belonging to the family Lycaenidae and an index to the species articles. This forms part of the full List of butterflies of India.
This list is based on Evans (1932) and includes 318 species bel ...
References
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lavendularis
Fauna of Pakistan
Butterflies of Asia
Butterflies described in 1877
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