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Neolysandra coelestina

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ54984703 ↗
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Neolysandra coelestina is a butterfly found in the Palearctic that belongs to the blues family.

Subspecies

N. c. coelestina South Europe, NorthTuran, Southwest Siberia

N. c. alticola (Christoph, 1886) Armenia (highland), Caucasus, Asia Minor, Kurdistan

N. c. iranica (Pfeiffer, 1938) North Iran

N. c. saadii Eckweiler & Schurian, 1980 Iran

Description from Seitz

L. coelestina Ev. (82 c). Male reddish violet-blue (not so deep blue as in our figure), similar in colour to athis with black border and black discocellular spot; hindwing with black marginal dots. Female black brown, with obsolescent reddish yellow submarginal spots. The underside is very characteristical, the hindwing beneath being dusted with bright metallic pale blue from the base close to the margin.

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The public source identifies “Neolysandra coelestina” as species of insect. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Neolysandra, coelestina and species.

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This entry incorporates text from “Neolysandra coelestina” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.