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Species
Near ThreatenedSPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyLycaenidae
Observations recorded204,530
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2,184
- With media
- 3,866
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, UIT
- Recorded in
- Norway
Wikidata facts
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- taxon rank
- species
- taxon name
- Cupido minimus
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- Cupido minimus
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- Cupido minimus
- taxon common name
- mali kupido
- has host
- Oxytropis campestris
- short name
- C. minimus
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- regional conservation status
- Vulnerable
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Encyclopedic overview
Male underside, Munich
The small blue (Cupido minimus) is a Palearctic butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. Despite its common name, it is not particularly blue. The male has some bluish suffusion at the base of its upper wings but is mostly dark brown like the female. The species can live in colonies of up to several hundred and in its caterpillar stage is cannibalistic.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cupido minimus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (2)
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