Brephidium
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Brephidium is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. They are known commonly as pygmy blues. The species of this genus have a disjunct distribution. Two of the three species are found in the Americas while the third is found in Africa.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Brephidium is referenced by 9 other articles, and connects out to United States, Africa and South Africa.
It sits within the topics Brephidium, Lycaenidae genera and Taxa named by Samuel Hubbard Scudder.
Its subject is documented across 11 Wikipedia language editions.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 19
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Collections
- TTU, SDNHM, MSU, OSUC
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Polyommatini
- Image
- Brephidiumexilis2.jpg
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- Brephidium
- topic's main category
- Category:Brephidium
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- Brephidium
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- genus
- taxon common name
- Pygmy Blues
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Brephidium is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. They are known commonly as pygmy blues. The species of this genus have a disjunct distribution. Two of the three species are found in the Americas while the third is found in Africa.
==Species== The following three species are in the genus Brephidium: Brephidium exilis (Boisduval, 1852) – western pygmy blue (southern United States to South America) Brephidium metophis (Wallengren, 1860) – South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe Brephidium pseudofea (Morrison, 1873) – eastern pygmy blue (southeastern United States)
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