Lycaena

Where conditions were right (neither too much nor too little sun, for instance up near the house itself) a scumble of colors occurred in Spring, attracting swarms of bees and butterflies — among these: Silver-spotted Skippers (Epargyreus clarus clarus) and American Coppers (Lycaena phlaes americana) — in abundance.

The light that draws the flower James Greer 2011

Indeed, I have chosen the small copper as Jurisdynamics' mascot precisely because subspecies of Lycaena phlaeas are widely distributed across North America and all three continents of World Island.

Small copper (Lycaena phlaeas 2006

The taxon of the week is the small copper Lycaena phlaeas .

Small copper (Lycaena phlaeas 2006

The taxon of the week is the small copper Lycaena phlaeas .

Archive 2006-07-01 2006

Indeed, I have chosen the small copper as Jurisdynamics' mascot precisely because subspecies of Lycaena phlaeas are widely distributed across North America and all three continents of World Island.

Archive 2006-07-01 2006

On the skirts of the plantations I found the handsome blue Deudorix despoena, and in the shady woods the lovely Lycaena wallacei.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

On the skirts of the plantations I found the handsome blue Deudorix despoena, and in the shady woods the lovely Lycaena wallacei.

The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

Gone, too, not only from Whittlesea but from the whole world, is that most exquisite of English butterflies, Lycaena dispar -- the great copper; and many a curious insect more.

Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847

Formica francoeuri tending larvae of the copper butterfly, Lycaena xanthoides.

Myrmecos Blog 2009

Lycaena tityrus across altitudes and temperatures.

New Content on CO2 Science 2009