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Euphilotes

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Subfamily
  
Polyommatinae

Scientific name
  
Euphilotes

Higher classification
  
Polyommatini

Order
  
Butterflies and moths

Family
  
Lycaenidae

Tribe
  
Polyommatini

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Rank
  
Genus

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Butterfly, Euphilotes battoides, Butterflies and moths, El Segundo blue, Lycaenidae

Butterflies from guatemala mariposa licanidae del genus euphilotes o glaucopsyches


Euphilotes is a genus of butterflies in the Lycaenidae family, which consists of a number of species found in western North America. Some of the species are endangered, such as the Smith's blue, Euphilotes enoptes smithi.

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Species

Listed alphabetically:

  • Euphilotes ancilla (Barnes & McDunnough, 1918) – Rocky Mountain dotted blue
  • Euphilotes battoides (Behr, 1867) – square-spotted blue or buckwheat blue
  • Euphilotes baueri (Shields, 1975) – Bauer's dotted-blue
  • Euphilotes bernardino (Barnes & McDunnough, 1916) – Bernardino blue or Bernardino dotted-blue
  • Euphilotes ellisi (Shields, 1975) – Ellis dotted-blue
  • Euphilotes enoptes (Boisduval, 1852) – dotted Blue
  • Euphilotes intermedia (Barnes & McDunnough, 1917) – intermediate dotted-blue
  • Euphilotes mojave (Watson & Comstock, 1920) – Mojave dotted-blue
  • Euphilotes pallescens (Tilden & Downey, 1955) – pale blue, pallid dotted-blue or pallid blue
  • Euphilotes rita (Barnes & McDunnough, 1916) – Rita blue or desert buckwheat blue
  • Euphilotes spaldingi (Barnes & McDunnough, 1917) – Colorado-Plateau blue

    • References

    Euphilotes Wikipedia
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