Brephidium

Brephidium
Brephidium exilis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Polyommatinae
Tribe:	Polyommatini
Genus:	Brephidium Scudder, 1876

Brephidium is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. ^[1] They are known commonly as pygmy blues. The species of this genus have a disjunct distribution. Two of the three species are found in the Americas while the third is found in Africa.

Species

The following three species are in the genus Brephidium: ^{[2] [1] [3] [4]}

• Brephidium exilis (Boisduval, 1852) – western pygmy blue (southern United States to South America)
• Brephidium metophis (Wallengren, 1860) – South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
• Brephidium pseudofea (Morrison, 1873) – eastern pygmy blue (southeastern United States)

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  Brephidium exilis
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  Brephidium pseudofea

References

1. "Butterflies and Moths of North America". www.butterfliesandmoths.org. Retrieved 24 December 2016.
2. Pittaway, A. R., T. B. Larsen, A. Legrain, J. Majer, Z. Weidenhoffer & M. Gillet. 2006. The establishment of an American butterfly in the Persian Gulf: Brephidium exilis (Boisduval, 1852) (Lycaenidae). Nota Lepidopterologica 29(1/2):3-14.
3. Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287 .
4. Brephidium at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera