CELASTRINA
ARGIOLUS
| English name: | Holly Blue |
| Norwegian name: | Vårblåvinge |
| Auctor: | (Linnaeus, 1758) |
| Original description: | as Papilio Plebejus argiolus in Syst.Nat. (Edn. 10) I: 483. |
| Syn.: | cleobis (Sulzer, 1776) |
| marginatus (Retzius, 1783) | |
| acis (Fabricius, 1787) | |
| calidogenita (Verity, 1919) | |
| paraleuca (Rober, 1897) | |
| bieneri Forster, 1941 | |
| Type locality of nominate species: | England (?). |
| Subspecies in Norway: | C. a. argiolus. |
| Worldwide distribution: | North Africa, Europe, temperate parts of Asia to Central Sibira and NW China. |
| Specimens from E Transbaikalia, NE China, Korea, Sakhalin and Japan are now placed under C. ladonides. Specimens from North America (from Alaska and Newfoundland in the north to mountains of Central America and Colombia in the south) and now placed under C. ladon. | |
C. argiolus argiolus | |
| Auctor: | (Linnaeus, 1758) |
| Syn.: | - - - |
| Type locality of subspecies: | England (?). |
| Distribution in Norway: | South and Central Norway. |
| Notes: | Two records from North Norway; southern Nordland (1985) |
| and Finnmark (1973). | |
| Described forms found in Norway: | - - - |
| Etymology: | Argiolus is a diminutive form of argus. Linné wrote that argiolus is similar to P.argus, but smaller. |
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| 3 | 4 |
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CELASTRINA ARGIOLUS ARGIOLUS |
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Specimen |
Kommune |
Coll. date |
Legit |
In coll. |
Remarks | ||
| 1 | 28 | BØ | Hurum | 06-MAY-1990 | Tony Nagypal | TN | m |
| 2 | 28 | BØ | Drammen | 19-MAY-1980 | Tony Nagypal | TN | m (ventral view) |
| 3 | 26 | TEI | Seljord | 09-JUN-1996 | Tony Nagypal | TN | f |
| 4 | 27 | BØ | Kongsberg | 05-JUN-1995 | Tony Nagypal | TN | f (ventral view) |
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