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65 relations: Abisara echerius, Ant, Aphid, Aphnaeini, Arhopala, Black hairstreak, Butterfly, Caleta (butterfly), Celastrina ladon, Chilades, Chrysoritis, Common blue, Curetis, Curetis thetis, Eastern tailed-blue, El Segundo blue, Entomophagy, Eumaeus atala, Euselasiinae, Family (biology), Fender's blue butterfly, Fossil, Glaucopsyche lygdamus, Great purple hairstreak, Herbivore, Honeydew (secretion), Instar, Iophanus, Large blue, Large copper, Liphyra brassolis, Liphyrinae, Lipteninae, List of lycaenid genera, Lithodryas, Lithopsyche, Lycaena boldenarum, Lycaena epixanthe, Lycaena heteronea, Lycaena phlaeas, Lycaena rauparaha, Lycaeninae, Miletinae, Monotypic taxon, Myrmecophily, Nymphalidae, Palos Verdes blue, Phengaris xiushani, Polyommatinae, Polyommatus semiargus, ..., Poritiinae, Pseudozizeeria maha, Riodinidae, Riodininae, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Sand Mountain blue, Scale insect, Silver-studded blue, Small blue, Subfamily, Talicada nyseus, Theclinae, Trophallaxis, William Elford Leach, Xerces blue. Expand index (15 more) »
Abisara echerius
Abisara echerius, the plum Judy, is a small but striking butterfly found in Asia belonging to the Punches and Judies family (Riodinidae).
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Ant
Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera.
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Aphid
Aphids are small sap-sucking insects and members of the superfamily Aphidoidea.
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Aphnaeini
The Aphnaeini are a tribe of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.
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Arhopala
Arhopala is a very large genus of gossamer-winged butterflies (Lycaenidae).
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Black hairstreak
The black hairstreak (Satyrium pruni) is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.
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Butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths.
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Caleta (butterfly)
Caleta is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae, mainly found in Southeast Asia.
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Celastrina ladon
Celastrina ladon, the spring azure, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae.
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Chilades
Chilades, commonly called jewel blues, is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.
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Chrysoritis
Chrysoritis, commonly called opals or coppers, is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae found mainly in southern Africa and particularly South Africa.
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Common blue
The common blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus) is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae and subfamily Polyommatinae.
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Curetis
Curetis, the sunbeams is a genus of gossamer-winged butterflies (Lycaenidae) from the south-east of Asia.
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Curetis thetis
Curetis thetis, the Indian sunbeam, Retrieved April 20, 2018.
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Eastern tailed-blue
The eastern tailed-blue or eastern tailed blue (Cupido comyntas), also known as Everes comyntas, is a common butterfly of eastern North America.
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El Segundo blue
The El Segundo blue (Euphilotes battoides allyni) is a butterfly local to a small dune ecosystem in Southern California that used to be a community called Palisades del Rey, close to the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
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Entomophagy
Entomophagy (from Greek ἔντομον éntomon, "insect", and φᾰγεῖν phagein, "to eat") is the human use of insects as food.
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Eumaeus atala
Eumaeus atala, the Atala or coontie hairstreak, is a small colorful butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.
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Euselasiinae
Euselasiinae is a subfamily of Riodinidae.
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Family (biology)
In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.
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Fender's blue butterfly
Fender's blue butterfly (Aricia icarioides fenderi syn. Plebejus icarioides fenderi NatureServe. 2012.) is an endangered subspecies of butterfly endemic to the Willamette Valley of northwestern Oregon, United States.
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Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
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Glaucopsyche lygdamus
Glaucopsyche lygdamus, the silvery blue, is a small butterfly native to North America.
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Great purple hairstreak
The great purple hairstreak (Atlides halesus), also called the great blue hairstreak, is a common gossamer-winged butterfly species in parts of the United States.
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Herbivore
A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage, for the main component of its diet.
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Honeydew (secretion)
Honeydew is a sugar-rich sticky liquid, secreted by aphids and some scale insects as they feed on plant sap.
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Instar
An instar (from the Latin "form", "likeness") is a developmental stage of arthropods, such as insects, between each moult (ecdysis), until sexual maturity is reached.
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Iophanus
Iophanus is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae described by Max Wilhelm Karl Draudt in 1920.
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Large blue
The large blue (Phengaris arion) is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.
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Large copper
The large copper (Lycaena dispar) is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae.
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Liphyra brassolis
Liphyra brassolis, the moth butterfly, is a butterfly found in South Asia, Southeast Asia and Australia that belongs to the lycaenid family.
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Liphyrinae
Liphyrinae is a butterfly subfamily within the family Lycaenidae, whose members are also known as gossamer-winged butterflies.
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Lipteninae
Lipteninae is a butterfly subfamily within the family Lycaenidae, whose members are also known as gossamer-winged butterflies.
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List of lycaenid genera
The large butterfly family Lycaenidae contains the following genera: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.
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Lithodryas
Lithodryas is a prehistoric genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.
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Lithopsyche
Lithopsyche is a fossil butterfly known from Oligocene-aged strata of the Isle of Wight, England.
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Lycaena boldenarum
Lycaena boldenarum, the boulder copper, is a species of butterfly which is endemic to New Zealand, it is found on both North Island and South Island in a wide variety of open habitats including grassland, shingle and sand dunes.
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Lycaena epixanthe
Lycaena epixanthe, the bog copper or cranberry-bog copper, is a North American butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.
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Lycaena heteronea
The blue copper, also known as Lycaena heteronea, is an American butterfly that belongs to the gossamer-winged family.
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Lycaena phlaeas
Lycaena phlaeas, the small copper, American copper, or common copper, is a butterfly of the Lycaenids or gossamer-winged butterfly family.
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Lycaena rauparaha
Lycaena rauparaha, Rauparaha’s copper or mokarakare is a species of butterfly endemic to New Zealand.
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Lycaeninae
Lycaeninae, the coppers, are a subfamily of the gossamer-winged butterflies (Lycaenidae).
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Miletinae
Miletinae is a subfamily of the family Lycaenidae of butterflies, commonly called harvesters and woolly legs, and virtually unique among butterflies in having predatory larvae.
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Monotypic taxon
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon.
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Myrmecophily
Myrmecophily (literally "ant-love") is the term applied to positive interspecies associations between ants and a variety of other organisms such as plants, other arthropods, and fungi.
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Nymphalidae
The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world, belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea.
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Palos Verdes blue
The Palos Verdes blue (Glaucopsyche lygdamus palosverdesensis) is a small endangered butterfly native to the Palos Verdes Peninsula in southwest Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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Phengaris xiushani
Phengaris xiushani is a species of butterfly of the family Lycaenidae.
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Polyommatinae
Polyommatinae, the blues, are a subfamily of gossamer-winged butterflies (Lycaenidae).
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Polyommatus semiargus
Polyommatus semiargus, the Mazarine blue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.
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Poritiinae
Poritiinae is a subfamily of butterflies, the larvae of which are unusual for feeding on algae and foliate lichen.
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Pseudozizeeria maha
Pseudozizeeria maha (synonym: Zizeeria maha), the pale grass blue, is a small butterfly found in Asia that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.
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Riodinidae
Riodinidae is the family of metalmark butterflies.
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Riodininae
Riodininae is the largest of the three subfamilies within the metalmark butterfly family, Riodinidae.
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Royal Museum for Central Africa
The Royal Museum for Central Africa or RMCA (Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika or KMMA; Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale or MRAC), colloquially known as the Africa Museum, is an ethnography and natural history museum situated in Tervuren in Flemish Brabant, Belgium, just outside Brussels.
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Sand Mountain blue
The Sand Mountain blue (Euphilotes pallescens arenamontana) is a butterfly of the gossamer winged variety that is only found around the Sand Mountain Recreation Area near Fallon, Nevada.
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Scale insect
The scale insects are small insects of the order Hemiptera, suborder Sternorrhyncha.
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Silver-studded blue
The silver-studded blue (Plebejus argus) is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.
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Small blue
The small blue (Cupido minimus) is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.
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Subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: subfamilia, plural subfamiliae) is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus.
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Talicada nyseus
Talicada nyseus, the red Pierrot, is a small but striking butterfly found in the Indian subcontinent and South-East Asia belonging to the lycaenids, or blues family.
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Theclinae
The subfamily Theclinae is a group of butterflies, including the hairstreaks, elfins and allies, in the family Lycaenidae.
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Trophallaxis
Trophallaxis is the transfer of food or other fluids among members of a community through mouth-to-mouth (stomodeal) or anus-to-mouth (proctodeal) feeding.
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William Elford Leach
William Elford Leach, MD, FRS (2 February 1791 – 25 August 1836) was an English zoologist and marine biologist.
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Xerces blue
The Xerces blue (Glaucopsyche xerces) is an extinct species of butterfly in the gossamer-winged butterfly family, Lycaenidae.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycaenidae
