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n. - Type genus of the family of small usually brilliantly colored butterflies.

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  • The taxon of the week is the small copper Lycaena phlaeas .
  • Indeed, I have chosen the small copper as Jurisdynamics' mascot precisely because subspecies of Lycaena phlaeas are widely distributed across North America and all three...
  • Where conditions were right (neither too much nor too little sun, for instance up near the house itself) a scumble of colors occurred in Spring, attracting swarms of bees and...
  • Lycaena tityrus across altitudes and temperatures.
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