Agriades podarce: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Agriades
- Species
- Agriades podarce
- Scientific Name
- Agriades podarce
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Agriades podarce
Agriades podarce, the arrowhead Arctic blue, gray blue or Sierra Nevada blue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in North America from southern Oregon to central California in the Klamath Range and the Sierra Nevada. The habitat consists of subalpine meadows.
The wingspan is 22–26 mm. Adults are on wing from June to September in one generation per year. They feed on flower nectar, including yellow composites and bistort.
The larvae feed on Dodecatheon jeffreyi. Caterpillars or chrysalids hibernate.
...Agriades podarce in languages:
- English
- Sierra Nevada Blue
- English
- Sierra Blue
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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





















































































































































