Neolysandra coelestina

Neolysandra coelestina is a butterfly found in the Palearctic that belongs to the blues family.

Neolysandra coelestina
Neolysandra coelestina in Seitz 82 c
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Lycaenidae
Genus:
Neolysandra
Species:
N. coelestina
Binomial name
Neolysandra coelestina
(Eversmann, 1843) [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Lycaena coelestina Eversmann, 1843
  • Polyommatus coelestina
  • Polyommatus coelestinus
  • Agrodiaetus coelestina
  • Neolysandra coelestinus

Subspecies
  • N. c. coelestina South Europe, NorthTuran, Southwest Siberia
  • N. c. alticola (Christoph, 1886) Armenia (highland), Caucasus, Asia Minor, Kurdistan
  • N. c. iranica (Pfeiffer, 1938) North Iran
  • N. c. saadii Eckweiler & Schurian, 1980 Iran

Description from Seitz
For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

L. coelestina Ev. (82 c). Male reddish violet-blue (not so deep blue as in our figure), similar in colour to athis with black border and black discocellular spot; hindwing with black marginal dots. Female black brown, with obsolescent reddish yellow submarginal spots. The underside is very characteristical, the hindwing beneath being dusted with bright metallic pale blue from the base close to the margin. In the South Eussian steppes, at Sarepta, Orenburg, etc . in the Caucasus. — alticola Christ, is a smaller form from Armenia with the ocelli of the hindwing beneath obsolescent, the verdigris-dusting occupying nearly the whole hindwing, and with broader border to the upperside of the forewing. In June.[3]

Biology

The larva feeds on Melilotus, Trifolium, Anthyllis vulneraria , Vicia cracca

See also

References
  1. Eversmann, 1843 Quaedam lepidopterorum species novae in montibus Uralensibus et Altaicus habitantes nunc descriptae et depictae Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou 16 (3) : 535-553, pl. 7-10
  2. Neolysandra coelestina at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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