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Lycaena phlaeas (Small Copper Butterfly)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The small copper, American copper, or the common copper (Lycaena phlaeas) is a butterfly of the Lycaenids or gossamer-winged butterfly family. According to Guppy and Shepard (2001), its specific name phlaeas is said to be derived either from the Greek Phlego, "to burn up" or from the Latin Floreo, "to flourish".
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Infraspecies

Lycaena phlaeas aestivaecaudata
Lycaena phlaeas alpestris
Lycaena phlaeas americana
Lycaena phlaeas arctodon
Lycaena phlaeas basilijuncta
Lycaena phlaeas chinensis
Lycaena phlaeas coccineus
Lycaena phlaeas coeruleabasalis
Lycaena phlaeas comedarum
Lycaena phlaeas cyrenaica
Lycaena phlaeas daimio
Lycaena phlaeas ethiopica
Lycaena phlaeas feildeni
Lycaena phlaeas fieldeni
Lycaena phlaeas flavens
Lycaena phlaeas hibernica
Lycaena phlaeas hyperborea
Lycaena phlaeas indicus
Lycaena phlaeas infrapallida
Lycaena phlaeas infrarfolineata
Lycaena phlaeas japonica
Lycaena phlaeas kuriliphlaeas
Lycaena phlaeas lusitanicus
Lycaena phlaeas matsumuranus
Lycaena phlaeas menelieki
Lycaena phlaeas narua
Lycaena phlaeas naruena
Lycaena phlaeas oxiana
Lycaena phlaeas phlaeas
Lycaena phlaeas phlaeoides
Lycaena phlaeas polaris
Lycaena phlaeas pseudophlaeas
Lycaena phlaeas rectaserie
Lycaena phlaeas schmidtii
Lycaena phlaeas shima
Lycaena phlaeas timeus
Lycaena phlaeas turanica
Lycaena phlaeas vernus

Attributes

Diet [1]  Herbivore
Wing Span [2]  0.984 inches (.025 m)

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Ecosystems

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

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Predators

Machimus atricapillus[7]

Consumers

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Butterflies of Canada, Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
♦ 3Ecology of Commanster
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 6Jorrit 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.
♦ 7Predator-Prey Database for the family Asilidae (Hexapoda: Diptera) Prepared by Dr. Robert Lavigne, Professor Emeritus, University of Wyoming, USA and Dr. Jason Londt (Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg)
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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