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Celastrina argiolus (Holly Blue Butterfly)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The holly blue (Celastrina argiolus) is a butterfly that belongs to the Lycaenids or blues family and is native to Eurasia and North America. The holly blue has pale silver-blue wings spotted with pale ivory dots.In Europe, the first generation feeds mainly on holly (Ilex aquifolium) but the second generation uses a range of food plants.
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Infraspecies

Celastrina argiolus albocaeruleoides
Celastrina argiolus antidisconulla
Celastrina argiolus argiolus
Celastrina argiolus arizonensis
Celastrina argiolus bieneri
Celastrina argiolus britanna
Celastrina argiolus calidogenita
Celastrina argiolus canicularis
Celastrina argiolus caphis
Celastrina argiolus cinerea
Celastrina argiolus crimissa
Celastrina argiolus evansi
Celastrina argiolus gozora
Celastrina argiolus grisescens
Celastrina argiolus heringi
Celastrina argiolus ladon
Celastrina argiolus ladonides
Celastrina argiolus levettii
Celastrina argiolus maculispostcarens
Celastrina argiolus manchurica
Celastrina argiolus mauretanica
Celastrina argiolus parvipuncta

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♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 3Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 4Ecology of Commanster
♦ 5Kato, M., T. Makutani, T. Inoue, and T. Itino. 1990. Insect-flower relationship in the primary beech forest of Ashu, Kyoto: an overview of the flowering phenology and seasonal pattern of insect visits. Contr. Biol. Lab. Kyoto Univ. 27:309-375.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0