Celastrina iynteana

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Jyntea Hedge Blue

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Papilionoidea
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Celastrina
Species:	C. iynteana

Binomial name

Celastrina iynteana
(De Nicéville, 1883)

Synonyms

Lycaenopsis jynteana

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

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

[edit] Description

Male Upperside: purplish-blue or lilac of a deeper shade than in C. dilecta. Forewing: a much broader dusky black terminal margin that widens at apex and is somewhat diffuse along its inner edge. In specimens of the dry-season brood there is a diffuse but prominent discal white patch. Hind wing: costa dusky brownish; termen with a comparatively narrow black border edged on the inner side by a more or less obscure subterminal series o£ black spots, each spot centred in a background which is slightly paler than the lilac ground-oolour. Underside: pale greyish-white or bluish-white, with the usual pale brown markings which are small, delicate and regular. Antenna, head, thorax and abdomen blackish brown, antennae ringed with white; beneath: palpi, thorax and abdomen white.—

Female " Upperside fore wing: all but the middle of the disc (which is white glossed with iridescent blue black; a discocellular black spot. Hind wing: blackish; white in the middle glossed with blue; along the veins irrorated with black scales; a submarginal series of pale lunules. Underside : both wings marked exactly as in the male." (de Niceville)^[3]

[edit] Taxonomy

The butterfly was earlier known as Lycaenopsis jynteana De Nicéville^[2].

[edit] Range

It is found from Sikkim in India to Dawnas^[2].

[edit] Cited references

^ Card for iynteana in LepIndex. Accessed 14 October 2006.
^ ^a ^b ^c Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no H21.25, pp 221-226
^ Bingham, C. T. 1907. Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Volume 2

[edit] See also

[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