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Glaucopsyche lygdamus (palos verdes blue butterfly; Silvery Blue)

Synonyms: Glaucopsyche arizonensis; Polyommatus lygdamus

Wikipedia Abstract

The silvery blue (Glaucopsyche lygdamus) is a small butterfly native to North America. Upperside is a light blue in males, a dull grayish blue in females. Underside is gray with single row of round spots of differing sizes depending upon region. G. lygdamus is found over much of the western United States and most of Canada extending north excepting most of Nunavut and the high Arctic islands. Wingspan is from 18 to 28 mm.
View Wikipedia Record: Glaucopsyche lygdamus

Infraspecies

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  0.906 inches (.023 m)

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Badlands National Park II 178535 South Dakota, United States
Calvin College Ecosystem Preserve 90 Michigan, United States

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Lepus townsendii (White-tailed Jackrabbit)1
Pieris napi (Green-veined White Butterfly)1
Pieris rapae (imported cabbageworm)1
Thymelicus lineola (European skipper)1

External References

NatureServe Explorer

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.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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