Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Caerulea
Species:
C. coelestis – C. coeligena – C. guizhouensis

Name

Caerulea Forster, 1938.

Type species: Lycaena coeligena var. coelestis Alpheraky, 1897: 113.

References

• Alphéraky, S. N., 1897. Lépidoptères des provinces chinoises Sé-Tchouen at Kam recueillis en 1893 par G. N. Potaine. In Romanoff Mém. Lép. 9: 83–149, 5 pls. text, plates. Reference page. 

• Eliot, J.N. 1973. The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative arrangement. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), entomology 28(6): 371-505. Reference page. 

• Forster, W. 1938. Das system der paläarktischen Polyommatini (Lep. Lycaenidae). Mitteilungen der Münchner entomologischen Gesellschaft 28: 97-118.Reference page. 

• Huang, H. & Cao, F. 2019. A new species of Caerulea Forster, 1938 from W. Guizhou (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 78: 256-264. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• Schröder, S., 2006. Some little known Lycaenids from the Phang district of Northern Thailand (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) Nachr. entomol. Ver. Apollo, N.F. 27(3): 97-102. Reference page. 

• Ugelvig, L.V., Vila, R., Pierce, N.E. & Nash, D.R., 2011. A phylogenetic revision of the Glaucopsyche section (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), with special focus on the Phengaris–Maculinea clade. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61(1): 237–243. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.05.016 . Reference page.