Celastrina idella D. Wright & Pavulaan, 1999

Celastrina idella D. Wright & Pavulaan, 1999
(Holly Azure)

Distribution and Larval Foodplants:

(From: A Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada, Jonathan P. Pelham)

Genus Celastrina Tutt, 1906

Entomol. Rec. & J. Var. 18(5): 131. Type-species: Papilio argiolus Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1: 483, no. 153, by original designation.

= ‡Cyaniriodes Matsumura, 1919

Thous. Ins. Japan, Addit. 3: 736. Type-species: Lycaena ogasawarensis Pryer, 1886, Rhop. nihon. (1): 10-11, no. 24,, pl. 2, fig. 13, by monotypy. Preoccupied by Cyaniriodes de Nicéville, 1890, Butts. India Burmah Ceylon 3: 33.

= Maslowskia M. M. Omelko & M. A. Omelko, 1984

In: Kononenko et al., Fauna Ekol. Ins. Far East: 25. Type-species: Lycaenopsis filipjevi N. Riley, 1934, Entomol. 67(851): 85-86, pl. 1, figs. 1-6. Kurentsov (1974), Zoogeogr. Far East: 92, is frequently considered to have described this genus (e.g., Korshunov and Ivonin (1990), in: Zolatarenko, Nov. Maloizvest. Vidy Faun. Sib. 22: 77-78); however, Kurentsov mentioned this name without a description; a nomen nudum.

Celastrina idella D. Wright & Pavulaan, 1999

Tax. Rep. Int. Lepid. Surv. 1(9): 4-5, figs. 1 ♂ D, 2 ♂ V (holotype); 3 ♀ D, 4 ♀ V, 5 ♂ D&V, 6 ♂ D&V, 7 ♂ D&V, 8 ♀ D&V, 22 map, 28 ♂ genitalia, 29 ♂ genitalia.

Original Combination: Celastrina idella

Type Locality: “2.2 km. s. of Chatsworth, Burlington Co., NJ...cedar bog in Risley Branch of Wading River” [New Jersey]

Types: Holotype in ANSP.

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