''Celatoxia marginata'', the margined hedge blue, is a species of butterfly belonging to the
lycaenid family described by
Lionel de Nicéville
Charles Lionel Augustus de Nicéville (1852 in Bristol – 3 December 1901 in Calcutta from malaria) was a curator at the Indian Museum in Calcutta (now Kolkata). He studied the butterflies of the Indian Subcontinent and wrote a three volume mono ...
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 Ind ...
.
[ 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''
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Celatoxia
Butterflies described in 1894