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Lycaena dispar (Large copper)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The large copper (Lycaena dispar) is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. The insect has a wide range occurring throughout the northern Palearctic ecozone north to the middle taiga zone (Euro-Siberian region).
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Infraspecies

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Prey / Diet

Bistorta officinalis (meadow bistort)[1]
Rumex aquaticus (western dock)[2]
Rumex britannica (acute dock)[3]
Rumex sanguineus (redvein dock)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
3Jorrit 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.
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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