Celastrina huegeli

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Large Hedge Blue
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Superfamily: Papilionoidea Family: Lycaenidae Genus: Celastrina Species: C. huegeli
Binomial name
Celastrina huegeli (Moore, 1882)

The Large Hedge Blue (Celastrina huegeli)^[1] is a small butterfly found in India^[2] that belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues family.

Contents 1 Taxonomy 2 Range 3 Cited references 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Taxonomy

The alternate scientific name is Celastrina huegelii^[3] and the butterfly was earlier known as Lycaenopsis huegelii Moore^[2].

As concerns spelling of the species taxon name it is usually found in literature as huegelii except for the NMNH's LepIndex site where it is recorded as huegeli.

The species now also is considered as per Marrku Savela to consist of the following erstwhile species^[3].

• Celastrina huegelii dipora, the Dusky Blue Cupid previously Everes dipora as per Evans^[4], but considered as a separate species Celastrina dipora in NMNH's LepIndex^[5].

[edit] Range

It is found in Kashmir to Kumaon in India^[2]. Marrku Savela's site gives range of the butterfly as Himalayas to Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Northern Thailand, the extended range being due to the inclusion of C. h. singalensis and C. h. dipora as part of the huegelii species.

[edit] Cited references

[edit] See also

• Lycaenidae
• List of butterflies of India
• List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)

[edit] References

• Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex [accessed 14 October 2006].
• Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.
• Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera [1].