Celastrina gigas: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Celastrina
- Species
- Celastrina gigas
- Scientific Name
- Celastrina gigas
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Celastrina gigas
Celastrina gigas, the silvery hedge blue, is a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. The species was first described by Francis Hemming in 1928.
...Celastrina gigas in languages:
- English
- Silvery Hedge Blue
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Celastrina algernoni
- Celastrina argiolus
- Celastrina asheri
- Celastrina echo
- Celastrina fedoseevi
- Celastrina filipjevi
- Celastrina gigas
- Celastrina hersilia
- Celastrina huegelii
- Celastrina humulus
- Celastrina idella
- Celastrina ladon
- Celastrina lavendularis
- Celastrina lucia
- Celastrina matanga
- Celastrina morsheadi
- Celastrina neglecta
- Celastrina neglectamajor
- Celastrina nigra
- Celastrina ogasawaraensis
- Celastrina oreas
- Celastrina perplexa
- Celastrina phellodendroni
- Celastrina philippina
- Celastrina pseudargiolus
- Celastrina serotina
- Celastrina sugitanii