Celastrina lavendularis

Plain hedge blue
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Celastrina
Species: C. lavendularis
Binomial name
Celastrina lavendularis
(Moore, 1877)

Celastrina lavendularis, the plain hedge blue,[1] is a small butterfly found in Sri Lanka[2] that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

Description

Male upperside: uniform dark purplish blue. Forewings and hindwings: termen narrowly edged with black; costal margin of hindwing 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 forewing more regular, the spots more evenly en echelon, the spot nearest the costa small and shifted well inwards. Hindwing: 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, forewing: 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 forewing 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.[3]

Taxonomy

The butterfly was earlier known as Lycaenopsis lavendularis Moore.[2]

Range

It is found in Sri Lanka.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Card for lavendularis in LepIndex. Accessed 14 October 2006.
  2. 1 2 3 Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. pp. 221–226, ser no H21.19.
  3. ↑ Bingham, C.T. (1907). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. II (1st ed.). London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd.
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