Gaeides is a genus of

butterflies Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises t ...

in the family

Lycaenidae Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfly ...

. There are currently three known

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of ...

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Gaeides dione ''Lycaena dione'', the grey copper or great copper, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. The species was first described by Samuel Hubbard Scudder in 1868. It is found from the southern Prairie provinces of Canada and western Ontario ...

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Gaeides gibboni Gaeides is a genus of butterflies Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and ...

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Gaeides gorogon Gaeides is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. There are currently three known species:CoL (2007) * '' Gaeides dione'' * ''Gaeides gibboni Gaeides is a genus of butterflies Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopte ...

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''Gaeides''
Retrieved 17 May 2008. Lycaenidae Lycaeninae Lycaenidae genera Taxa named by Samuel Hubbard Scudder {{Lycaeninae-stub