Holly blue

Holly blue
	Male
	Female; both Cumnor Hill, Oxford, England
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Celastrina
Species:	C. argiolus
Binomial name
	Celastrina argiolus; (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
	Papilio cleobis Sulzer, 1776; Papilio thersanon Bergstrasser, 1779; Papilio argyphontes Bergstrasser, 1779; Papilio argalus Bergstrasse, 1779; Papilio (Argus) marginatus Retzius, 1783; Lycaenopsis argiolus calidogenita Verity, 1919; Lycaenopsis argiolus britanna Verity, 1919;

The holly blue (Celastrina argiolus) is a butterfly that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family and is native to the Palearctic.

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