Euphilotes Explained

Euphilotes is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae, which consists of a number of species found in western North America. Some of the species are endangered,^[1] such as the Smith's blue, Euphilotes enoptes smithi.

Species

Listed alphabetically:^{[2] [3]}

• Euphilotes ancilla (Barnes & McDunnough, 1918) – Rocky Mountain dotted blue
• Euphilotes battoides (Behr, 1867) – Square-spotted blue or buckwheat blue
• Euphilotes baueri (Shields, 1975) – Bauer's dotted-blue
• Euphilotes bernardino (Barnes & McDunnough, 1916) – Bernardino blue or Bernardino dotted-blue
• Euphilotes centralis (Barnes & McDunnough, 1917)
• Euphilotes columbiae (Matoni, 1954) Columbian blue
• Euphilotes ellisi (Shields, 1975) – Ellis dotted-blue
• Euphilotes enoptes (Boisduval, 1852) – Dotted blue
• Euphilotes glaucon (Edwards, 1871) Glaucon blue or summit blue
• Ephilotes heracleoides (Kohler & Warren, 2021) Pumice blue
• Euphilotes intermedia (Barnes & McDunnough, 1917) – intermediate dotted-blue INVALID
• Euphilotes mojave (Watson & Comstock, 1920) – Mojave dotted-blue
• Euphilotes pallescens (Tilden & Downey, 1955) – Pale blue, pallid dotted-blue or pallid blue
• Euphilotes rita (Barnes & McDunnough, 1916) – Rita blue or desert buckwheat blue
• Euphilotes spaldingi (Barnes & McDunnough, 1917) – Colorado-Plateau blue

See also

• Carbonera Creek
• Maritime coast range ponderosa pine forest

External links

• Taxonomy tree for genus Euphilotes
• Euphilotes, Butterflies and Moths of North America

Notes and References

1. http://ecos.fws.gov/speciesProfile/SpeciesReport.do?spcode=I00R U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service profile of Smith's blue butterfly
2. http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/lycaenidae/polyommatinae/euphilotes/index.html Euphilotes
3. http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Euphilotes Euphilotes