Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae > Plebejus amanda > Plebejus amanda andreas

Plebejus amanda andreas (Common Blue Butterfly)

Synonyms: Lycaena andreas

Attributes

Litter Size [1]  180
Wing Span [2]  1.378 inches (.035 m)

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

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Predators

Echthistus rufinervis[6]
Machimus largus[6]
Neomochtherus hungaricus[6]
Philonicus albiceps[6]

Consumers

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Body size, egg size, and their interspecific relationships with ecological and life history traits in butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea, Hesperioidea), Enrique García-Barros, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (2000), 70: 251–284
2De Keyser, R., Breuker, C. J., Hails, R. S., Dennis, R. L., & Shreeve, T. G. (2015). Why Small Is Beautiful: Wing Colour Is Free from Thermoregulatory Constraint in the Small Lycaenid Butterfly, Polyommatus icarus.
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.
4Ecology of Commanster
5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
6Predator-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)
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