The common blue butterfly or European common blue is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae and subfamily Polyommatinae. The butterfly is found throughout the Palearctic and has been introduced to North America. Butterflies in the Polyommatinae are collectively called blues, from the coloring of the wings. Common blue males usually have wings that are blue above with a black-brown border and a white fringe. The females are usually brown above with a blue dusting and orange spots.
The ringlet is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is only one of the numerous "ringlet" butterflies in the tribe Satyrini.
Cyaniris semiargus, the Mazarine blue, is a Palearctic butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.
The geranium bronze or brun des pélargoniums in French, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.
The scarce large blue 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, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, northern Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, and Ukraine and East across the Palearctic to Japan. The species was first described by Johann Andreas Benignus Bergsträsser in 1779.
Plebejus is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Its species are found in the Palearctic and Nearctic realms.
Coreana is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. The genus is monotypic, containing the single species Coreana raphaelis, which is found in the east Palearctic in Ussuri, north-east China, Korea and Japan (Honshu).
Achlya flavicornis, the yellow horned, is a moth of the family Drepanidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found from Europe to the eastern Palearctic ecozone.
Wagimo is a small East Asian genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.
Aristaea bathracma is a species of moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from China, Thailand, Japan (Honshū), the Russian Far East, Mozambique, South Africa, Réunion and Uganda.
Chrysaster hagicola is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Japan, Korea and the Russian Far East.
Gracillaria ussuriella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the islands of Hokkaidō, Honshū and Kyūshū in Japan and the Russian Far East.
Gonepteryx maxima is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1885. It is found from north-eastern China to Korea, Japan, the Russian Far East and Japan. The habitat consists of steppe and forest-steppe areas.
Sephisa princeps is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Johann Heinrich Fixsen in 1887. It is found in the Russian Far East, north-eastern China and Korea. The habitat consists of oak forests.
Thecla betulina is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Otto Staudinger in 1887. It is found in the Russian Far East, north-eastern China and Korea. The species is found in the forest belt where it inhabits forest edges and river valleys.
Xestia brunneopicta is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from Magadan to the east-Siberian Tuva in Russia. It has also been recorded from northern Finland.
Niphanda fusca is a parasitic butterfly primarily found in East Asian countries such as Japan and Korea. It is a "cuckoo-type" parasite of the ant Camponotus japonicus. It utilizes chemical mimicry to trick the host worker ants into adopting it while it is a third-instar caterpillar. From there, it is fed mouth-to-mouth by the worker ants as though it were one of their own young.
Japonica lutea is a small butterfly found in the East Palearctic that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.
Chalinga pratti is an East Palearctic butterfly in the family Nymphalidae (Limenitidinae).
