Many Lycaenidae live in complex and curious symbiotic relationships with ants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forest butterflies of West Africa: still hanging on today, but where will they be tomorrow?] Reference

Papilio and Charaxes are well represented and Pieridae and Lycaenidae are also present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ethiopian montane grasslands and woodlands] Reference

There are large fauna of Riodinidae and Lycaenidae that are potentially suitable for farming.    From Wordnik.com.  [5 Application to Other Nations] Reference

These butterflies are in a group called the blues family Lycaenidae, subfamily Polyommatinae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference

Butterflies in the family Riodinidae and, especially, Lycaenidae seem to be a neglected resource.    From Wordnik.com.  [5 Application to Other Nations] Reference

A major difficulty is that many Lycaenidae have to live with ants for part of their lives and this complicates their rearing.    From Wordnik.com.  [5 Application to Other Nations] Reference

There is a considerable trade in New World butterflies from nearly every family (few Lycaenidae and Hesperiidae), but almost all are caught in the wild.    From Wordnik.com.  [5 Application to Other Nations] Reference

Butterflies were not abundant, but I obtained a few more of the fine blue Papilio, and a number of beautiful little Lycaenidae, as well as a single specimen of the very rare Papilio Wallacei, of which I had taken the hitherto unique specimen in the Aru.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago] Reference

Lycaenidae to the magnificent azure of the large Morphinae of Brazil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference

Lycaenidae, remarkable for their large size, singular markings, or brilliant coloration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2] Reference

Papilionidae, Lycaenidae, etc., which are gaily coloured and of an immense variety of patterns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

But in some cases this leads to the female being more conspicuous, as in some of the Lycaenidae, where the female is bright blue and the male of a blue so much deeper and soberer in tint as to appear the less brilliantly coloured of the two.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

Butterflies were not abundant, but I obtained a few more of the fine blue Papilio, and a number of beautiful little Lycaenidae, as well as a single specimen of the very rare Papilio Wallacei, of which I had taken the hitherto unique specimen in the Aru Islands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2] Reference

He specialized in the family Lycaenidae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference

"I had often," he says, "observed small Blues at rest on similar spots on the ground, and have wondered what such a refined and beautiful family as the Lycaenidae could find to enjoy, in food apparently so incongruous for a butterfly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

Family: Lycaenidae moths.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Family: Lycaenidae.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference