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Lycaenidae

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Icaricia saepiolus

Icaricia saepiolus, the greenish blue, is a Lycaenidae butterfly found in northwestern North America.

Icaricia shasta

Icaricia shasta (Shasta blue) is a small Lycaenidae butterfly found in northwestern North America.

Icaricia acmon

Icaricia acmon, the Acmon blue, is a North American lycaenid butterfly with varied coloration and a mutualistic relationship with ants.

Icaricia icarioides (Boisduval, 1852)

Boisduval's blue (Icaricia icarioides) is a North American Lycaenidae butterfly with a 21–32 mm wingspan.

Eumedonia eumedon (Esper, 1780)

Eumedonia eumedon is a butterfly associated with Geranium, distributed across Eurasia from the Pyrenees to the Pacific.

Kretania eurypilus

Kretania eurypilus is a small brown butterfly found across parts of Western and Central Asia, with larvae likely hosted by Astragalus echinus.

Kretania trappi (Verity, 1927)

Kretania trappi, the Alpine zephyr blue, is a Lycaenidae butterfly found in Italy and Switzerland, threatened by habitat loss.

Plebejidea loewi

Plebejidea loewi is a butterfly species found across Northeast Africa and Western and Central Asia.

Celastrina ladon echo (Edwards, 1864)

Celastrina ladon (spring azure/echo blue) is a North American Lycaenidae butterfly with disputed species status and 22–35 mm wingspan.

Celastrina argiolus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Celastrina argiolus, the holly blue, is a common Eurasian butterfly, and the national butterfly of Finland.

Celastrina ladon (Cramer, 1782)

Celastrina ladon, the spring azure, is a Lycaenidae butterfly found across much of the Americas and Hawaii.

Celastrina neglectamajor Opler & Krizek, 1984

Celastrina neglectamajor, the Appalachian azure, is the largest azure butterfly of the central-southern Appalachians.

Celastrina lucia (Kirby, 1837)

Celastrina lucia is a Lycaenidae butterfly found in eastern North America with larvae feeding on Vaccinium plants.

Celastrina lavendularis (Moore, 1877)

Celastrina lavendularis is a butterfly species with distinct wing color and pattern differences between males and females.

Udara blackburni (Tuely, 1878)

Udara blackburni is a small blue butterfly endemic to most of the main Hawaiian Islands, with caterpillars that feed on native Hawaiian trees and shrubs.

Udara albocaerulea (Moore, 1879)

The albocerulean (Udara albocaerulea) is a Lycaenidae butterfly described in 1879, found across parts of East and South Asia.

Udara dilectus (Moore, 1879)

Udara dilectus is a small lycaenid butterfly found across South and East Asia, first described in 1879.

Udara akasa (Horsfield, 1828)

Udara akasa is a lepidopteran species with sexually dimorphic wing markings, found in Sri Lanka, Western Ghats and Malaya.

Neopithecops zalmora Butler, 1870

Neopithecops zalmora, the Quaker, is a small lycaenid butterfly found in South and Southeast Asia.

Acytolepis puspa (Horsfield, 1828)

Acytolepis puspa is a butterfly with distinct wet- and dry-season forms, found across South and East Asia to New Guinea.

Megisba malaya (Horsfield, 1828)

Megisba malaya, the Malayan butterfly, has seasonal forms and multiple subspecies found in South and Southeast Asian forests.

Eicochrysops hippocrates (Fabricius, 1793)

Eicochrysops hippocrates, the white-tipped blue, is a Lycaenidae butterfly found in sub-Saharan Africa with larvae feeding on Polygonum and Rumex.

Eicochrysops messapus (Godart, 1824)

Eicochrysops messapus, the cupreous blue, is a rare Lycaenidae butterfly found in Africa, whose larvae likely feed on Thesium.

Castalius rosimon (Fabricius, 1775)

The common Pierrot (Castalius rosimon) is a small blue butterfly found across South and Southeast Asia.

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