Directory of Polyommatinae Resources

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This subfamily of butterflies includes the Blues and relatives.

Resources in This Category

• Adonis Blue: Lysandra bellargus

  http://www.arkive.org/adonis-blue/lysandra-bellargus/
  Photographs and information from ARKive including description, range, habitat, biology, threats and conservation.

• Brephidium isophthalma pseudofoea: Eastern Pigmy Blue

  http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/creatures/bfly/eastern_pigmy_blue.htm
  Photographs of this butterfly and its larvae, its distribution, description and life cycle.

• Cyclargus thomasi bethunbakeri: Miami Blue

  http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/creatures/bfly/miami_blue.htm
  Photographs of this butterfly and its larvae, its distribution, description, life cycle and conservation status.

• Greenish Blue (Plebejus saepiol)

  http://imnh.isu.edu/digitalatlas/bio/insects/butrfly/famlyc/plsaf.htm
  Description of adult and caterpillar, range, habitat, and ecology. With a photograph.

• Hypochrysops

  http://www.insectcompany.com/gallery/hypochrysops.shtml
  The Insect Company provides a photograph gallery of colorful butterflies of this genus from the Australian region.

• Karner Blue (Lycaeides melissa)

  http://animaldiversity.org/site/accounts/information/Lycaeides_melissa.html
  Photos, physical description, range, habitat, and reproduction. Includes scientific classification.

• Large Blue Butterflies

  http://www.zi.ku.dk/personal/drnash/atta/Pages/LargeBl.html
  Extensive information about the unusual life cycle of Maculinea species, which are parasites inside red ant (Myrmica species) nests in the larval stage.

• Photo Gallery: Ogyris

  http://www.insectcompany.com/gallery/ogyris.shtml
  The Insect Company provides images of a number of species mostly from Australia.

• Pygmy Blue Butterfly

  http://crawford.tardigrade.net/bugs/BugofMonth41.html
  Illustrated article by Robert Michael Pyle about the Pygmy Blue butterfly, Brephidium exile, and its first discovery in Washington state in 2004.

 

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