Celastrina

Celastrina is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae found in the Palearctic, Nearctic, Indomalayan and Australasian realms. thumb|Celastrina ladon museum specimens

==Species== Listed alphabetically: 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) 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