Celastrina

Celastrina
Celastrina neglectamajor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Polyommatinae
Tribe:	Polyommatini
Genus:	Celastrina J. W. Tutt, 1906
Synonyms
CyaniriodesMatsumura, 1919 MaslowskiaKurentzov, 1974

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

Celastrina ladon museum specimens

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 asheri (Labar, Pelham & Kondla, 2022) ) – Asher's 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 iryna (Pavulaan, 2025) ^[2]
• 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

1. Celastrina , funet.fi
2. WSOCTV.com news staff (October 23, 2025). "Species of butterfly named for Iryna Zarutska". WSOC-TV . Retrieved October 24, 2025– via Yahoo News.

External links

• images representing Celastrina at Consortium for the Barcode of Life