Euphilotes battoides
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A member of the species Euphilotes battoides on an Eriogonum flower in the San Gabriel Mountains |
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Euphilotes battoides - Square-spotted Blue (, Lined Bluebird ') or Buckwheat blue (, Buchweizenbläuling') - is a Butterfly -Art from the family of Gossamer (Lycaenidae), which is native to western North America.
description
Their wingspan is between 16 and 17 mm depending on the species and subspecies. The top of the females is often brown with an orange stripe on the edge of the outer hind wing. The males are blue with a dark hem. Only some have the orange stripe. The underside is white to gray with black spots. The annual adult generation flies between mid-April and August. They feed on the flower nectar of various plants, mostly species of the 'North American wild buckwheat' ( Eriogonum ).
Ecology and way of life
The larvae feed on flowers and fruits of the genus Eriogonum . The subspecies battoides was on lobbii Eriogonum var. Lobbii , Eriogonum incanum and Eriogonum polypodum discovered while the subspecies Glaucon to Eriogonum umbellatum , Eriogonum ovalifolium var. Nivale , Eriogonum heracleoides , Eriogonum sphaerocephalum var. Halimioides and flavum Eriogonum var. Piperi specializes; the subspecies comstocki on Eriogonum umbellatum . The subspecies allyni was discovered on Eriogonum parvifolium var. Parvifolium , Eriogonum cinereum and Eriogonum fasciculatum var. Fasciculatum . The larvae can be looked after by ants. The species overwinters pupates in the sand or leaves .
Occurrence
Euphilotes battoides are native to western North America between the US state of Washington and south to Baja California Norte and west to the south of Colorado and New Mexico .
Systematics
Synonyms
- Rusticus battoides
- Philotes battoides
- Euphilotes glaucon
- Rusticus glaucon
- Philotes glaucon
Subspecies (including protection status)
- Euphilotes battoides battoides ( Behr , 1867) (California)
- Euphilotes battoides glaucon ( Edwards , 1871) (British Columbia to northeast California and south Idaho)
- Euphilotes battoides comstocki ( Shields , 1975)
- Euphilotes battoides centralis ( Barnes & McDunnough , 1917) (southern Colorado to northern New Mexico)
- Euphilotes battoides allyni ( Shields , 1975) (California) - since 1976 on the endangered Red List species of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service listed.
- Euphilotes battoides argocyanea ( Pratt & J. Emmel , 1998)
- Euphilotes battoides fusimaculata ( Pratt & J. Emmel , 1998)
- Euphilotes battoides mazourka ( Pratt & J. Emmel , 1998)
- Euphilotes battoides panamintensis ( Pratt & J. Emmel , 1998)
- Euphilotes battoides vernalis ( Pratt & J. Emmel , 1998)
Invalid subspecies
- Euphilotes battoides bernardino ( Barnes & McDunnough , 1916) - Bernardino Square-spotted Blue
- Euphilotes battoides centralis ( Barnes & McDunnough , 1917)
- Euphilotes battoides intermedia ( Barnes & McDunnough , 1917)
- Euphilotes battoides baueri ( Shields , 1975)
- Euphilotes battoides ellisi ( Shields , 1975)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Euphilotes at nic.funet.fi.
- ^ Traci Watson: Rare Butterflies Flying High at Los Angeles Airport. news.nationalgeographic.com, April 21, 2016, accessed August 8, 2017.
- ↑ Los Angeles World Airport (LAWA) Environmental and Land Use Planning Division: LAX Dunes Preserve. (PDF), accessed on August 8, 2017.
- ↑ El Segundo blue butterfly (Euphilotes battoides allyni) , Environmental Conservation Online System (ECOS) of the FWS, accessed August 12, 2017.