Holly blue

Holly blue
Male
Female
both Cumnor Hill, Oxford, England
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Celastrina
Species:
C. argiolus
Binomial name
Celastrina argiolus
Synonyms
  • Papilio cleobis Sulzer, 1776
  • Papilio thersanon Bergstrasser, 1779
  • Papilio argyphontes Bergstrasser, 1779
  • Papilio argalus Bergstrasse, 1779
  • Papilio (Argus) marginatus Retzius, 1783
  • Lycaenopsis argiolus calidogenita Verity, 1919
  • Lycaenopsis argiolus britanna Verity, 1919

The holly blue (Celastrina argiolus) is a butterfly that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family and is native to the Palearctic.

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