Brephidium

Brephidium is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.[1] They are known commonly as pygmy blues. The species of this genus have a disjunct distribution. Two of the three species are found in the Americas while the third is found in Africa.

Brephidium
Brephidium exilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Genus: Brephidium
Scudder, 1876

Species

The following three species are in the genus Brephidium:[2][1][3][4]

  • Brephidium exilis (Boisduval, 1852) – western pygmy blue (southern United States to South America)
  • Brephidium metophis (Wallengren, 1860) – South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
  • Brephidium pseudofea (Morrison, 1873) – eastern pygmy blue (southeastern United States)

References
  1. "Butterflies and Moths of North America". www.butterfliesandmoths.org. Retrieved 24 December 2016.
  2. Pittaway, A. R., T. B. Larsen, A. Legrain, J. Majer, Z. Weidenhoffer & M. Gillet. 2006. The establishment of an American butterfly in the Arabian Gulf: Brephidium exilis (Boisduval, 1852) (Lycaenidae). Nota Lepidopterologica 29(1/2):3-14.
  3. Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287.
  4. Brephidium at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera


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