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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.
Miletinae are entirely aphytophagous (do not feed on plants). The ecology of the Miletinae is little understood, but adults and larvae live in association with ants , and most known species feed on Hemiptera ( aphids , coccids , membracids , and psyllids ), though some, like Liphyra , feed on the ants themselves.
Entada gigas, commonly known as the monkey-ladder, sea bean, cœur de la mer or sea heart, is a species of flowering liana in the pea family, Fabaceae of the Mimosa subfamily, which is often raised to family rank (Mimosaceae).
Limaria hians, the flame shell, is a species of small saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Limidae. [1] This species is native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Biology
Plebejus idas lotis (syn. Lycaeides idas lotis, Lycaeides argyrognomon lotis, Plebejus anna lotis [3]) - commonly known as lotis blue butterfly - is a critically endangered subspecies native to Mendocino County, California, [4] with sightings in Sonoma and Marin counties.
The species was first described as Echinus cordatum in 1777 by Thomas Pennant. [1] [6] It has subsequently been synonymised with Echinocardium sebae Gray, 1825, [1] [7] Spatangus arcuarius Lamarck, 1816, [1] [8] Echinocardium australe Gray, 1851, [1] [9] Echinocardium stimpsonii A. Agassiz, 1864, [1] [10] Echinocardium zealandicum Gray, 1851, [1] [9] Amphidetus novaezelandiae Perrier, 1869, [1 ...
Leptotes cassius, the Cassius blue or tropical striped blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in North America in Florida including the Keys, Texas south through the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America to South America. Strays have been found in New Mexico, Kansas, Missouri, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. [2]
"Very unlike that of other Lycaenidae but shows an unexpected resemblance to that of Logania, Distant, and Taraka, Doherty. It is of great size, green overlaid with white, shaped something like a section or drum of a Doric column but somewhat widest at the base, the height, breadth at apex and breadth at base being to each other as 9, 13 and 15.5.