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

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

References

External links

• images representing at Consortium for the Barcode of Life