Euphilotes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Genus: Euphilotes
(Mattoni, [1978])

Euphilotes is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae, which consists of a number of species found in western North America. Some of the species are endangered,[1] such as the Smith's blue, Euphilotes enoptes smithi.

Species

Listed alphabetically:[2][3]

  • 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 centralis (Barnes & McDunnough, 1917)
  • Euphilotes columbiae (Matoni, 1954) Columbian blue
  • Euphilotes ellisi (Shields, 1975) – Ellis dotted-blue
  • Euphilotes enoptes (Boisduval, 1852) – Dotted blue
  • Euphilotes glaucon (Edwards, 1871) Glaucon blue or summit blue
  • Ephilotes heracleoides (Kohler & Warren, 2021) Pumice blue
  • Euphilotes intermedia (Barnes & McDunnough, 1917) – intermediate dotted-blue INVALID
  • 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

See also

References

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