Tweet
Enter your email address to subscribe to our e-newsletter. Our first newsletter will be issued in January 2012.
Powered by DWUser.com - Flash Menus, Drop down menus, popup menus and Dreamweaver Extensions
British Butterflies
:
Species
: Family Lycaenidae
Family Lycaenidae
You can also view a list of
all species by family
or an alphabetical list of species by
common name
,
latin name
or
UK status
.
Hesperiidae
Lycaenidae
Nymphalidae
Papilionidae
Pieridae
Resident Species (16)
Adonis Blue
(
Polyommatus bellargus
)
Black Hairstreak
(
Satyrium pruni
)
Brown Argus
(
Aricia agestis
)
Brown Hairstreak
(
Thecla betulae
)
Chalkhill Blue
(
Polyommatus coridon
)
Common Blue
(
Polyommatus icarus
)
Duke of Burgundy
(
Hamearis lucina
)
Green Hairstreak
(
Callophrys rubi
)
Holly Blue
(
Celastrina argiolus
)
Large Blue
(
Glaucopsyche arion
)
Northern Brown Argus
(
Aricia artaxerxes
)
Purple Hairstreak
(
Neozephyrus quercus
)
Silver-studded Blue
(
Plebeius argus
)
Small Blue
(
Cupido minimus
)
Small Copper
(
Lycaena phlaeas
)
White-letter Hairstreak
(
Satyrium w-album
)
Rare Migrant Species (2)
(species which rarely occur in Britain)
Long-tailed Blue
(
Lampides boeticus
)
Short-tailed Blue
(
Cupido argiades
)
Introduced Species (1)
(species which are non-native to the UK but have been accidentally introduced)
Geranium Bronze
(
Cacyreus marshalli
)
Extinct Species (5)
(species once present in Britain but now extinct)
Large Copper British Race
(
Lycaena dispar
)
Mazarine Blue
(
Polyommatus semiargus
)
Scarce Copper
(
Lycaena virgaureae
)
Sooty Copper
(
Lycaena tityrus
)
Turquoise blue
(
Plebicula dorylas
)
European Species (13)
(species not present in the UK)
African Grass Blue
(
Zizeeria knysna
)
Black-eyed Blue
(
Glaucopsyche melanops
)
Blue Spot Hairstreak
(
Satyrium spini
)
Common Tiger Blue
(
Tarucus theophrastus
)
False Ilex Hairstreak
(
Satyrium esculi
)
Green Underside Blue
(
Glaucopsyche alexis
)
Ilex Hairstreak
(
Satyrium ilicis
)
Lang's Short Tailed Blue
(
Leptotes pirithous
)
Panoptes Blue
(
Pseudophilotes panoptes
)
Purple-edged Copper
(
Lycaena hippothoe
)
Purple-Shot Copper
(
Lycaena alciphron
)
Spanish Argus
(
Aricia morronensis
)
Spanish Purple Hairstreak
(
Laeosopis roboris
)
All content
© Steven Cheshire 2000 -
unless otherwise stated.
Copyright
-
Contact
-
Site Map
Just because its on the web doesn't make it free!! Don't be tempted to steal copyrighted material... you will be breaking the law!!
