BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

LYCAENIDAE (blues, coppers and hairstreaks)

Subtaxa

Rank	Taxon
Species	Aricia agestis Schiffermuller, 1775 (Brown Argus)		9	2	6
Species	Aricia artaxerxes F., 1793 (Northern Brown Argus)			1
Species	Callophrys rubi Linnaeus (Green Hairstreak)			1	1
Species	Celastrina argiolus (Holly Blues)	1	2	3	7
Species	Cupido minimus Fuessly, 1775 (Small Blue Butterfly)		6		1
Species	Lampides boeticus Linnaeus (Long-tailed Blue)			1
Species	Lycaena dispar Haw. (Large Copper)			1	1
Species	Lycaena phlaeas Linnaeus (Small Copper)	2	12	4	1
Species	Maculinea arion L., 1758 (Large Blue)			1
Species	Plebejus argus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Silver Studded Blue)		8	1
Genus	Polyommatus (a genus of blue butterflies)	4
Species	Polyommatus bellargus (Rottemburg, 1775) (Adonis Blue Butterfly)		15	2	1
Species	Polyommatus coridon (Poda) (Chalkhill Blue Butterfly)	1	4	3	2
Hybrid	Polyommatus coridon x P. bellargus (Hybrid Chalkhill / Adonis Blue Butterfly)			1
Species	Polyommatus icarus Rottemburg, 1775 (Common Blue Butterfly)		8		1
Species	Quercusia quercus Linnaeus (Purple Hairstreak)		25	1	4
Species	Satyrium pruni L., 1758 (Black Hairstreak)				1
Species	Satyrium w-album Knoch, 1782 (White Letter Hairstreak)			1	3

Suggested Literature

LYCAENIDAE may be covered by literature listed under:

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with LYCAENIDAE:

larva

larva is endoparasitoid host of larva

Aplomya confinis - a parasitoid fly (Diptera: Tachinidae)

Belshaw, R., 1993

Lycaenidae may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

References