Lampides

Lampides is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

Lampides
Female peablue or long-tailed blue (Lampides boeticus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Genus: Lampides
Hübner, [1819]
Synonyms
  • Cosmolyce Toxopeus, 1927
  • Lampidella Hemming, 1933

It currently consists of one species: Lampides boeticus (Linnaeus, 1767), the peablue or long-tailed blue. Lampides used to contain other species, most of which have now been moved to the genus Jamides.


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