Lycaena phoebus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Lycaena
- Species
- Lycaena phoebus
- Scientific Name
- Lycaena phoebus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Lycaena phoebus
Lycaena phoebus, the Moroccan copper, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is endemic to the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. It flies according to the place from April to September or simply from August to September in a variable number of generations. Its host plant is Polygonum aviculare in the High Atlas and possibly Polygonum equisetiforme in the Anti-Atlas. The biotope is flowery meadow.
...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