Celastrina sugitanii is a species of

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

in the family

Lycaenidae Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfl ...

that is native to

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

and

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

Taxonomy

There are 5 recognised subspecies: * ''Celastrina sugitanii ainonica'' Murayama, 1952 * ''Celastrina sugitanii kyushuensis'' Shirôzu, 1948 * ''Celastrina sugitanii leei'' Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983 * ''Celastrina sugitanii shirozui'' Hsu, 1987 * ''Celastrina sugitanii sugitanii'' Mastumura, 1919

References

sugitanii Butterflies described in 1919 Butterflies of Japan {{Polyommatini-stub