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Lycaeides idas (Northern Blue)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Idas Blue or Northern Blue (Plebejus idas) is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. It is found in the northern regions of the Palearctic ecozone and the Nearctic ecozone. Flies from June to August depending on location. Wingspan: 17 to 28 mm. The larvae feed on Calluna and Fabaceae species.
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Infraspecies

Lycaeides idas abetonica
Lycaeides idas alpophila
Lycaeides idas apenninophila
Lycaeides idas armoricana
Lycaeides idas astragaliphaga
Lycaeides idas australissima
Lycaeides idas bellieri (Bellier's Blue)
Lycaeides idas calliopides
Lycaeides idas cuneata
Lycaeides idas degener
Lycaeides idas extremata
Lycaeides idas italapulchra
Lycaeides idas lycidas
Lycaeides idas misera
Lycaeides idas nevadensis
Lycaeides idas ornata
Lycaeides idas postauraca
Lycaeides idas pseudamoricana
Lycaeides idas saturior
Lycaeides idas selda
Lycaeides idas singularis
Lycaeides idas ultima
Lycaeides idas valesiaca

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  0.866 inches (.022 m)

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Prey / Diet Overlap

External References

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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.
♦ 3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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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