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Lampides is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

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monotypic taxon
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Polyommatini
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Lamprides boeticus-female.jpg
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Lampides
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Lampides
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Lampides is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

It currently consists of one species: Lampides boeticus (Linnaeus, 1767), the peablue or long-tailed blue. Lampides used to contain other species, most of which have now been moved to the genus Jamides.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lampides” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.