Celastrina

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Celastrina
Species: (20)
C. acesina – C. algernoni – C. argiolus – C. ebenina – C. fedoseevi – C. filipjevi – C. gigas – C. hersilia – C. huegelii – C. humulus – C. idella – C. lavendularis – C. morsheadi – C. neglectamajor – C. ogasawaraensis – C. oreas – C. perplexa – C. philippina – C. serotina – C. sugitanii
Name

Celastrina Tutt, 1906.

Type species: Papilio argiolus Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymy

Cyaniriodes Matsumura, 1919: 736. Type Species: Lycaena ogasawaraensis Pryer, 1886. [Homonym of Cyaniriodes de Nicéville, 1890.]
Maslowskia Kurentzov, 1974. nomen nudum
Maslowskia M. M. Omelko & M. A. Omelko, 1984.

References

Eliot, J. N. & Kawazoé, A. 1983. Blue butterflies of the Lycaenopsis group. British Museum (Natural History), London. ISBN 0-565-00860-9 Reference page.
Evans, W.H. 1953. A note on the Indian species of the genus Lycaenopsis Felder (Lepidoptera–Lycaenidae). J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 51(3): 755. BHL. Reference page.
Hsu, Y.-F. 1987. A New Subspecies of Celastrina sugitanii Matsumura from Taiwan (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Tyô to Ga 38(1), 5–8. Reference page.
Matsumura, S., 1919. Thousand Insects of Japan Additamenta, Vol. 3, pp. 475-742, pls. 26-53. BHL text, plates. Reference page.
Medicielo, M.M. 1993. Report on Cyaniriodes subspecies nov. from Babag Mts. Bantawon St. Bernard, S. Leyte, Philippines (Lepidoptera : Lycaenidae). Futao 12: 18. Reference page.
Wright, D.M. & Pavulaan, H. 1999. Celastrina idella (Lycaenidae: Polyommatinae) a new butterfly species from the Atlantic Coastal Plain. The Taxonomic Report 1(9): 1-11. PDF. Reference page.
Robbins, R.K., 2004. Lycaenidae. Theclinae. Tribe Eumaeini, pp. 118-137. In: Lamas, G. (Ed.), Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. 4A. Gainesville, Association for Tropical Lepidoptera; Scientific Publishers. Reference page.
Schmidt, B.C. & Layberry, R.A. 2016. What Azure blues occur in Canada? A re-assessment of Celastrina Tutt species (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). ZooKeys 584: 135-164. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.584.7882. Reference page.
Tutt, J.W. 1906. A study of the generic names of the British Lycaenidae and their close allies. Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation 18(5): 129–132. BHL Reference page.

Celastrina is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae found in the Palearctic, Nearctic, Indomalayan and Australasian realms.
Species

Listed alphabetically:[1]

Celastrina acesina (Bethune-Baker, 1906) – south-eastern Papua New Guinea
Celastrina albocoeruleus (Moore, 1879) – albocerulean
Celastrina algernoni (Fruhstorfer, 1917) – Philippines (Luzon) and Borneo
Celastrina argiolus (Linnaeus, 1758) – holly blue
Celastrina cardia (Felder, 1860) – pale hedge blue
Celastrina dipora (Moore 1865) – dusky blue Cupid
Celastrina echo (Edwards, 1864) – echo azure – California, Oregon
Celastrina fedoseevi Korshunov & Ivonin, 1990 – Transbaikalia, Amur Oblast
Celastrina filipjevi (Riley, 1934) – Ussuri, northeast China, Korea
Celastrina gigas (Hemming, 1928) – western Himalayas, Fujian
Celastrina gozora (Boisduval, 1870) – Mexican azure
Celastrina hersilia (Leech, [1893]) – Nepal to China
Celastrina huegeli (Moore, 1882) – large hedge blue
Celastrina humulus Scott & Wright, 1998 – hops azure – Colorado
Celastrina idella Wright & Pavulaan, 1999 – holly azure
Celastrina iynteana (De Nicéville, 1883) – Jyntea hedge blue
Celastrina ladon (Cramer, [1780]) – spring azure
Celastrina ladonides (De L'Orza, 1869) – silvery hedge blue
Celastrina lavendularis (Moore, 1877) – plain hedge blue
Celastrina lucia (Kirby, 1837) – Lucia azure or boreal spring azure
Celastrina morsheadi (Evans, 1915) – Tibet
Celastrina neglecta (Edwards, 1862) – summer azure
Celastrina neglectamajor Opler & Krizek, 1984 – Appalachian azure
Celastrina nigra (Forbes, 1960) – spring sooty, dusky azure, or sooty azure – eastern United States
Celastrina ogasawaraensis (Pryer, 1886) – Japan
Celastrina oreas (Leech, [1893]) – Ussuri, China, (including Tibet and Taiwan), Nepal, northeast India (Assam), Burma, Korea
Celastrina perplexa Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983 – China (Kangding)
Celastrina phellodendroni Omelko, 1987 – Ussuri
Celastrina philippina (Semper, 1889) – Borneo, Palawan, Philippines, Talaud, Moluccas, West Irian, Papua New Guinea, Bachan, Halmahera, Ternate, Timor, Sulawesi, Sula Islands, Ambon Island, Serang, Obi Islands
Celastrina serotina Pavulaan & Wright, 2005 – cherry gall azure
Celastrina sugitanii (Matsumura, 1919) – Japan, Sakhalin, Korea, northeast China

References

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