Lycaenidae: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus
Species
Scientific Name: Lycaenidae

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Lycaenidae

Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfly species.

The family comprises seven subfamilies, including the blues (Polyommatinae), the coppers (Lycaeninae), the hairstreaks (Theclinae), and the harvesters (Miletinae).

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Lycaenidae in languages:

Bokmål: glansvinger
Bulgarian: Синевки и огневки
Catalan: Licènids
Chinese: 灰蝶科
Chinese: 灰蝶
Croatian: Plavci
Czech: modráskovití
Danish: Blåfuglefamilien
Dutch: Kleine pages, vuurvlinders en blauwtjes
English: Gossamer-winged Butterflies
English: Blues, Hairstreaks and Coppers
English: Gossamerwings
Estonian: Sinilibliklased
Finnish: sinisiipiset
French: Lycénidés
German: Bläulinge
Hebrew: כחליליים
Hungarian: boglárkalepkefélék
Italian: Licenidi
Japanese: シジミチョウ科
Korean: 부전나비과
Lithuanian: Melsviai
Modern Greek: Λυκαινίδες
Polish: modraszkowate
Russian: Голубянки
Swedish: juvelvingar
Thai: วงศ์ ผีเสื้อสีน้ำเงิน
Ukrainian: Синявці

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Lycaenidae: taxon details and analytics

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Lycaenidae

Lycaenidae in languages:

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Lycaenidae: taxon details and analytics

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Lycaenidae

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