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Species of butterfly From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Celastrina gigas, the silvery hedge blue,[1] 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.
| Silvery hedge blue | |
|---|---|
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Celastrina |
| Species: | C. gigas |
| Binomial name | |
| Celastrina gigas (Hemming, 1928) | |
| Synonyms | |
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The species is considered to consist of the following subspecies:
It is found in the West Himalaya.
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