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Euphilotes battoides (Square-spotted Blue)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Euphilotes battoides, the square-spotted blue or buckwheat blue, is a species of butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. It is found from Washington south to Baja California Norte and then west to southern Colorado and New Mexico.
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Infraspecies

Euphilotes battoides allyni (El Segundo Blue)
Euphilotes battoides anasazi
Euphilotes battoides argocyanea
Euphilotes battoides battoides
Euphilotes battoides centralis (Rocky Mountain Square-spotted Blue)
Euphilotes battoides fusimaculata
Euphilotes battoides malcolmi
Euphilotes battoides martini
Euphilotes battoides mazourka
Euphilotes battoides oregonensis
Euphilotes battoides panamintensis
Euphilotes battoides vernalis

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  0.827 inches (.021 m)

Prey / Diet

Consumers

Pollinator of 
Galium boreale (Northern Bedstraw)[3]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Butterflies of Canada, Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
♦ 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