Euphilotes

Euphilotes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Polyommatinae
Tribe:	Polyommatini
Genus:	Euphilotes (Mattoni, [1978])

Euphilotes is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae, which consists of a number of species found in western North America. Some of the species are endangered, ^[1] such as the Smith's blue, Euphilotes enoptes smithi.

Species

Listed alphabetically: ^{[2] [3]}

• Euphilotes ancilla (Barnes & McDunnough, 1918) – Rocky Mountain dotted blue
• Euphilotes allyni (Shields, 1975) – El Segundo blue
• Euphilotes battoides (Behr, 1867) – Square-spotted blue or buckwheat blue
• Euphilotes baueri (Shields, 1975) – Bauer's dotted-blue
• Euphilotes bernardino (Barnes & McDunnough, 1916) – Bernardino blue or Bernardino dotted-blue
• Euphilotes centralis (Barnes & McDunnough, 1917)
• Euphilotes columbiae (Matoni, 1954) – Columbian blue
• Euphilotes ellisi (Shields, 1975) – Ellis dotted-blue
• Euphilotes enoptes (Boisduval, 1852) – Dotted blue
• Euphilotes glaucon(Edwards, 1871) – Glaucon blue or summit blue
• Ephilotes heracleoides(Kohler & Warren, 2021) – Pumice blue
• Euphilotes mojave (Watson & Comstock, 1920) – Mojave dotted-blue
• Euphilotes pallescens (Tilden & Downey, 1955) – Pale blue, pallid dotted-blue or pallid blue
• Euphilotes rita (Barnes & McDunnough, 1916) – Rita blue or desert buckwheat blue
• Euphilotes spaldingi (Barnes & McDunnough, 1917) – Colorado-Plateau blue

For Euphilotes intermedia(Barnes & McDunnough, 1917) – intermediate dotted-blue INVALID, see Euphilotes glaucon intermedia(W. Barnes & McDunnough, 1917)

See also

• Carbonera Creek
• Maritime coast range ponderosa pine forest

References

1. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service profile of Smith's blue butterfly
2. Euphilotes at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
3. Euphilotes, DiscoverLife

External links

• Taxonomy tree for genus Euphilotes
• Euphilotes, Butterflies and Moths of North America