Lycaena salustius: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Lycaena
- Species
- Lycaena salustius
- Scientific Name
- Lycaena salustius
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Lycaena salustius
Lycaena salustius, the common copper or the coastal copper, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is endemic to New Zealand. It is known in the Māori language as pepe para riki, a name that is shared with a few other members of the genus Lycaena native to New Zealand.
The wingspan is 24–35 mm. Adults are on wing from October to April.
The larvae feed on Muehlenbeckia species.
...Lycaena salustius in languages:
- English
- North Island Coastal copper
- English
- Pepe Pora Riki
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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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
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