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Lycaena lycidas (Hoary Edge)

Synonyms: Lycaena rubrimaculata; Papilio lycidas (heterotypic)

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.732 inches (.044 m)

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Calvin College Ecosystem Preserve 90 Michigan, United States

Prey / Diet

Amorpha fruticosa (dullleaf indigo)[1]
Hylodesmum nudiflorum (bare-stemmed tick-treefoil)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Epargyreus clarus (silverspotted skipper)1

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Butterflies of Canada, Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0