''Pseudophilotes'' is a
Palearctic
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The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Si ...
genus
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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 ...
.
Species
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Pseudophilotes abencerragus
''Pseudophilotes abencerragus'', the false baton blue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found on the Iberian Peninsula and in North Africa, Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
The wingspan is 18–22 mm. It is ver ...
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(Pierret, 1837)
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Pseudophilotes barbagiae
''Pseudophilotes'' is a Palearctic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.
Species
*''Pseudophilotes abencerragus'' (Pierret, 1837)
*'' Pseudophilotes barbagiae'' De Prins & Poorten, 1982 Sardinia
*'' Pseudophilotes baton'' (Bergstrasser, ...
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De Prins & Poorten, 1982 Sardinia
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Pseudophilotes baton''
(Bergstrasser, 779
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Pseudophilotes bavius
''Pseudophilotes bavius'', the Bavius blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Morocco, Algeria, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Asia Minor, southern Russia and northern Kazakhstan. The species occurs in small isolated population ...
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(Eversmann, 1832)
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Pseudophilotes jordanicus
''Pseudophilotes'' is a Palearctic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.
Species
*''Pseudophilotes abencerragus'' (Pierret, 1837)
*''Pseudophilotes barbagiae'' De Prins & Poorten, 1982 Sardinia
*'' Pseudophilotes baton'' (Bergstrasser, ...
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(Benyamini, 2000) Jordan
Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Ri ...
[Benyamini, Dubi, 2000: Pseudophilotes jordanicus a new relict species of the SE. Mediterranean Lepidoptera : Lycaenidae. ''Linneana Belgica'' 17(8): 359-370]
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Pseudophilotes panope
''Pseudophilotes'' is a Palearctic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.
Species
*''Pseudophilotes abencerragus'' (Pierret, 1837)
*''Pseudophilotes barbagiae'' De Prins & Poorten, 1982 Sardinia
*'' Pseudophilotes baton'' (Bergstrasser, ...
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(Eversmann, 1851) Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental coun ...
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Pseudophilotes panoptes
''Pseudophilotes panoptes'', the Panoptes blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found on the Iberian Peninsula and in North Africa, including Morocco.
It is very like '' Pseudophilotes baton'' but without the reddish yellow ana ...
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(Hübner, 813
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* June 22 – Battle of Versinikia: The Bulgars, led by Krum, ruler (''khan'') of the Bulgarian Empire, defeat Emperor Michael I near Edirne (modern Turkey). The Byzantine army (26,000 men) is d ...
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Pseudophilotes sinaicus
''Pseudophilotes sinaicus'', the Sinai baton blue, one of the world's smallest butterflies, lives only on mountainside patches of Sinai thyme in an arid corner of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt called Saint Katherine Protectorate.
Life cycle
T ...
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Nakamura, 1975
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Pseudophilotes vicrama
''Pseudophilotes vicrama'', the eastern baton blue, Retrieved April 23, 2018. is a small butterfly found in Asia, east to Tian Shan and parts of China, west to the Balkans, Turkey, eastern Europe to southern Finland. It belongs to the lycaenid ...
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(Moore, 1865)
References
Valentina Todisco, Andrea Grill, Konrad Fiedler, Brigitte Gottsberger, Vlad Dincă, Raluca Vodă,
Vladimir Lukhtanov and Harald Letsch (2018). Molecular phylogeny of the Palaearctic
butterfly genus Pseudophilotes
(Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) with focus on
the Sardinian endemic P. barbagiae. BMC Zoology 3:4. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40850-018-0032-7
External links
''Pseudophilotes''at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and some other life forms''
images representing ''Pseudophilotes'' at
Consortium for the Barcode of Life
The Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) was an international initiative dedicated to supporting the development of DNA barcoding as a global standard for species identification. CBOL's Secretariat Office is hosted by the National Museum of ...
Polyommatini
Lycaenidae genera
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