''Icaricia'' is a

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genus of

butterflies Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...

in the family

Lycaenidae Lycaenidae is the second-largest family (biology), 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 ...

. It was first described by the author and

lepidopterist Lepidopterology ()) is a branch of entomology concerning the scientific study of moths and the two superfamilies of butterflies. Someone who studies in this field is a lepidopterist or, archaically, an aurelian. Origins Post-Renaissance, the r ...

Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( ; 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (), was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Born in Imperial Russia in 1899, Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Rus ...

in 1945.

Species

Listed alphabetically:''Icaricia''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' * '' Icaricia acmon'' (Westwood,

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* '' Icaricia cotundra'' (Scott & Fisher, 2006) * ''

Icaricia icarioides ''Icaricia icarioides'', or Boisduval's blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae found in North America. This butterfly has 25 recognized subspecies. Their range extends throughout the western US and Canada from southern Saskatchewan to Br ...

'' (Boisduval, 1852) * '' Icaricia lupini'' (Boisduval, 1869) * '' Icaricia neurona'' (Skinner, 1902) * ''

Icaricia saepiolus ''Icaricia saepiolus'', the greenish blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found from the northwestern United States to southern Saskatchewan and Alberta. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane i ...

'' (Boisduval, 1852) * '' Icaricia shasta'' (Edwards, 1862)

References

External links

* * Lycaenidae genera {{Lycaenidae-stub