Lycaena boldenarum: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Lycaena
- Species
- Lycaena boldenarum
- Scientific Name
- Lycaena boldenarum
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Lycaena boldenarum
Lycaena boldenarum, the boulder copper, is a species of butterfly which is endemic to New Zealand, it is found on both North Island and South Island in a wide variety of open habitats including grassland, shingle and sand dunes. They are normally only active in bright sunny conditions and their flight is usually low to the ground. The boldenarum part of the species name given by the Scottish entomologist Adam White in honour of his first wife, Helen and her sister Frances, whose maiden name was Bolden. It shares the Maori name pepe para riki with two congeners the common copper (Lycaena salustius) and the glade copper (Lycaena feredayi).
...Lycaena boldenarum in languages:
- English
- Boulder Copper
- English
- Boulder butterfly
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Lycaena
- Lycaena 'canterbury common copper'
- Lycaena alciphron
- Lycaena argentina
- Lycaena asabinus
- Lycaena bleusei
- Lycaena boldenarum
- Lycaena caerulea
- Lycaena candens
- Lycaena clarki
- Lycaena dispar
- Lycaena edna
- Lycaena enysii
- Lycaena feredayi
- Lycaena helle
- Lycaena hibernica
- Lycaena hippothoe
- Lycaena irmae
- Lycaena kasyapa
- Lycaena kurdistanica
- Lycaena li
- Lycaena margelanica
- Lycaena mela
- Lycaena mithridates
- Lycaena ochimus
- Lycaena orus
- Lycaena ottomanus
- Lycaena panava
- Lycaena pang
- Lycaena phiala
- Lycaena phoebus
- Lycaena primus
- Lycaena rauparaha
- Lycaena salustius
- Lycaena solskyi
- Lycaena splendens
- Lycaena standfussi
- Lycaena svenhedini
- Lycaena tama
- Lycaena theages
- Lycaena thersamon
- Lycaena thetis
- Lycaena thoe
- Lycaena tityrus
- Lycaena tseng
- Lycaena violacea
- Lycaena virgaureae
- Phoenicurusia