Small Copper

Lycaena phlaeas est papilio familiae Lycaenidarum.

Larva

Distributio geographica

Lycaena phlaeas est frequens in Europa, Asia, America Septentrionali, et Africa Septentrionali ad australem ad Aethiopiam.

Subspecies phlaeas

Ovum

Habitus

Larvae praecipue rumices acetosa et acetosella, et aliis vescuntur.

Taxinomia

Subspecies daimio, Osaka, Iaponia

Germania

Germania

Lycaena phlaeas ad subgenus Thersamolycaena generis Lycaenae pertinet. Species vicissim dividitur in nonnullas subspecies:

• Lycaena phlaeas hibernica—Hibernia, Hibernia Septentrionalis
• Lycaena phlaeas eleus—Anglia, Cambria, Scotia
• Lycaena phlaeas phlaeas—Europa, Siberia occidentali, Caucasus, Caucasus Australis (locus typicus = Suecia)
• Lycaena phlaeas polaris—Urales septentrionales, Siberia septentrionalis, Paeninsula Tschucotica (Russia)
• Lycaena phlaeas kamtschatica—Paeninsula Camtschatica (Russia)
• Lycaena phlaeas ganalica—Paeninsula Camtschatica (Russia)
• Lycaena phlaeas daimio—Insulae Curilenses meridianae, Sachalina (insulae Russicae)
• Lycaena phlaeas hypophlaeas—Montes Altaici, Siberia meridiana, Amur (Russia–Sinae regio finium), Ussuri septentrionalis (ad Amur adiacens)
• Lycaena phlaeas chinensis—Ussuri meridiani
• Lycaena phlaeas oxiana—Montes Kopet Dag, Montes Alai, Ghissar-Darvaz, Montes Tian Shan
• Lycaena phlaeas comedarum—Montes Pamir orientales
• Lycaena phlaeas stygiana—Montes Pamir orientales
• Lycaena phlaeas shima—Arabia
• Lycanea phlaeas pseudophlaeas—Aethiopia, Uganda
• Lycaena phlaeas ethiopica—Montes Ruwenzori (Uganda)
• Lycaena phlaeas abbotti—Kenia, Tanzania, Malavia
• Lycaena phlaeas flavens
• Lycaena phlaeas coccinea
• Lycaena phlaeas americana
• Lycaena phlaeas arethusa
• Lycaena phlaeas arctodon
• Lycaena phlaeas feildeni

Nexus interni

• Lycaenidae
• Index lepidopterorum Britanniae
• Index lepidopterorum Indiae

Bibliographia

• Asher, Jim, Martin Warren, Richard Fox, Paul Harding, Gaile Jeffcoate, et Stephen Jeffcoate, eds. 2001. The Millennium Atlas of Butterflies in Britain and Ireland. Oxoniae: Oxford University Press.
• Darby, Gene. 1958. What is a Butterfly Sicagi: Benefic Press.
• Dempster, J. P., et A. M. Emmet. 1990. LYCAENA PHLAEAS (Linnaeus). In The Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland. The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland, 7, pars 1, ed. A. Maitland Emmet, John Heath, et al., 134–139. Colchester: Harley Books.
• Evans, W. H. 1932. The Identification of Indian Butterflies. Ed. 2a. Mumbai: Bombay Natural History Society.
• Gaonkar, Harish. 1996. Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (including Sri Lanka): A Biodiversity Assessment of a threatened mountain system. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.
• Gay, Thomas, Isaac Kehimkar, et J. C. Punetha. 1992. Common Butterflies of India. Mumbai: WWF-India and Oxford University Press.
• Haribal, Meena. 1994. Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and their Natural History.
• Kunte, Krushnamegh. 2005. Butterflies of Peninsular India. Universities Press.
• Tomlinson, David, et Rob Still. 2002. Britain's Butterflies. Old Basing, BR: WildGuides.
• Wynter-Blyth, M. A. 1957. Butterflies of the Indian Region. Mumbai: Bombay Natural History Society.

Nexus externi

Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad Lycaenam phlaeas spectant.

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