''Celatoxia marginata'', the margined hedge blue, is a species of butterfly belonging to the

lycaenid 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 ...

family described by Lionel de Nicéville in 1894. It is 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 ...

. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde'' 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175.

Subspecies

*''Celatoxia marginata marginata'' (Himalayas to Burma, northern Thailand, Laos, northern Vietnam, Yunnan, Taiwan) *''Celatoxia marginata splendens'' (Butler, 1900) (Malay Peninsula)

References

External links

"''Celatoxia'' Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' {{Taxonbar, from=Q21247899 Celatoxia Butterflies described in 1894