Celastrina lavendularis

Celastrina lavendularis, the plain hedge blue, is a small butterfly found in Sri Lanka, India, and across the Indomalayan realm that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

Description
"Male. Upperside dark lavender-blue, with an extremely narrow black outer marginal border. Female paler, and of a purple lavender-blue. Forewing with the base of the costa and an outer band black. Hindwing with black anterior border and marginal row of prominent pale-bordered black spots. Cilia white, with inner black border. Underside greyish-white. Forewing with dusky-black streak at end of the cell, a discal series of oblique spots, and marginal row of small spots enclosed by a dentated line. Hindwing with three black subbasal spots, some specimens with a smaller spot at base of subcostal and another at base of lower median vein, a curved series of seven discal spots, and a marginal row of spots enclosed by a dentate line."

Taxonomy
The butterfly was earlier known as Lycaenopsis lavendularis Moore.

Subspecies

 * Celastrina lavendularis aroana Eliot and Kawazoe, 1983 Papua New Guinea
 * Celastrina lavendularis chloe Eliot and Kawazoe, 1983 Moluccas
 * Celastrina lavendularis epicharma (Fruhstorfer, 1910) Flores
 * Celastrina lavendularis floresana (Courvoisier, 1912) Java
 * Celastrina lavendularis gadara (Fruhstorfer, 1910) Moluccas
 * Celastrina lavendularis hermesianax (Fruhstorfer, 1910) Philippines
 * Celastrina lavendularis himilcon (Fruhstorfer, 1909) Taiwan
 * Celastrina lavendularis isabella Corbet, 1937. Malaya
 * Celastrina lavendularis lavendularis (Moore, 1877). Sri Lanka (type)
 * Celastrina lavendularis limbata (Moore, 1879).India (type)
 * Celastrina lavendularis lyce (Grose-Smith, 1896) Celebes
 * Celastrina lavendularis placidina (Fruhstorfer, 1917) Sumatra