''Celatoxia'' is a genus of

butterflies Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

in the family

Lycaenidae Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfl ...

. The species of this genus are found in the

Indomalayan realm The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indi ...

and the

Palearctic realm The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...

(

Yunnan Yunnan , () is a landlocked Provinces of China, province in Southwest China, the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is ...

Himalayas The Himalayas, or Himalaya (; ; ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the planet's highest peaks, including the very highest, Mount Everest. Over 100 ...

Species

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Celatoxia albidisca ''Celatoxia albidisca'', the white-disc hedge blue, Retrieved April 19, 2018. is a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. Description Very closely allied to '' Cyaniris puspa'', the common hedge blue, from ...

'' (Moore, 1884) South India (highlands) *'' Celatoxia carna'' (de Nicéville, 1895) Assam to Malaya, Sumatra *'' Celatoxia marginata'' (de Nicéville, 1884) Kumaon, Assam, Himalayas to Burma, North Thailand, Laos, North Vietnam, Yunnan, Formosa Peninsular Malaya

External links

"''Celatoxia'' Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' {{Polyommatini-stub