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The large blue (Phengaris arion) is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.The species was first defined in 1758 and first recorded in Britain in 1795. [2] In 1979 the species became mostly extinct in Britain but has been successfully reintroduced with new conservation methods. [3]
Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, [1] whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfly species.
The greater large blue (Phengaris arionides) is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Northeast China, Japan, and the Russian Far East.
The scarce large blue (Phengaris teleius) is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.It is found in Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, northern Serbia, [2] Spain, Switzerland, and Ukraine and East across the Palearctic to Japan.
Phengaris alcon, the Alcon blue or Alcon large blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae and is found in Europe and across the Palearctic to Siberia and Mongolia. Seitz 83a Description from Seitz
Phengaris is a genus of gossamer-winged butterflies in the subfamily Polyommatinae. Commonly, these butterflies are called large blues, which if referring to a particular species is P. arion, a species resident in Europe and some parts of Asia. Underside of the large blue (P. arion), formerly in Maculinea in Rabastens-de-Bigorre, Hautes ...
Deudorix perse (formerly Virachola perse), the large guava blue, [2] [3] is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1863.
Lycaenidae, a family of butterflies Polyommatinae, a subfamily consisting of the blue butterflies Common blue (Polyommatus icarus) Large blue (Phengaris arion) Small blue (Cupido minimus) Euphilotes, a subfamily consisting of blue butterflies El Segundo Blue (Euphilotes battoides) Blue morpho (disambiguation), several species in the genus Morpho