Agriades optilete: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Agriades
- Species
- Agriades optilete
- Scientific Name
- Agriades optilete
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Agriades optilete
Agriades optilete, the cranberry blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in north eastern Europe, the Alps, North Asia, Japan, Korea and north western North America.
The length of the forewings is about 14 mm. The butterfly flies from June to August depending on the location.
The larvae feed on Vaccinium oxycoccos, Empetrum nigrum, bilberry and other cranberry and Empetrum species.
...Agriades optilete in languages:
- Bokmål
- myrblåvinge
- Czech
- modrásek stříbroskvrnný
- Danish
- Bølleblåfugl
- Dutch
- Veenbesblauwtje
- English
- Cranberry Blue
- Estonian
- Jõhvika-sinitiib
- Finnish
- juolukkasinisiipi
- French
- azuré de la canneberge
- German
- Hochmoor-Bläuling
- Japanese
- カラフトルリシジミ
- Lithuanian
- Pelkinis Melsvys
- Russian
- Голубянка торфяниковая
- Swedish
- Violett blåvinge
- Ukrainian
- Синявець торфовищний
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Agriades aegagrus
- Agriades alexis
- Agriades alexius
- Agriades amica
- Agriades amphiroe
- Agriades andarabi
- Agriades aquilina
- Agriades aquilo
- Agriades asturiensis
- Agriades dardanus
- Agriades diodorus
- Agriades dis
- Agriades errans
- Agriades forsteri
- Agriades glandon
- Agriades jaloka
- Agriades janigena
- Agriades kurtjohnsoni
- Agriades lamasem
- Agriades leela
- Agriades lehanus
- Agriades luana
- Agriades morsheadi
- Agriades optilete
- Agriades orbitulus
- Agriades pheres
- Agriades pheretiades
- Agriades pheretulus
- Agriades podarce
- Agriades pyrenaica
- Agriades sikkima
- Agriades younghusbandi
- Agriades zullichi































































































































































