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.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Polyommatinae |
| Tribe: | Polyommatini |
| Genus: | Euphilotes (Mattoni, [1978]) |
Species
edit- Euphilotes ancilla (Barnes & McDunnough, 1918) – Rocky Mountain dotted 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 intermedia(Barnes & McDunnough, 1917) – intermediate dotted-blue INVALID- 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
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service profile of Smith's blue butterfly
- ^ Euphilotes at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
- ^ Euphilotes, DiscoverLife
External links
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Wikispecies has information related to Euphilotes.
- Taxonomy tree for genus Euphilotes
- Euphilotes, Butterflies and Moths of North America