| Euphilotes | |
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| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Class: | Insecta | 
| Order: | Lepidoptera | 
| Family: | Lycaenidae | 
| Subfamily: | Polyommatinae | 
| Tribe: | Polyommatini | 
| Genus: | Euphilotes (Mattoni, [1978])  | 
Euphilotes is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae, which consists of a number of species found in western North America. Some of the species are endangered,[1] such as the Smith's blue, Euphilotes enoptes smithi.
Species
- Euphilotes ancilla (Barnes & McDunnough, 1918) – Rocky Mountain dotted blue
 - Euphilotes battoides (Behr, 1867) – Square-spotted blue or buckwheat blue
 - Euphilotes baueri (Shields, 1975) – Bauer's dotted-blue
 - Euphilotes bernardino (Barnes & McDunnough, 1916) – Bernardino blue or Bernardino dotted-blue
 - Euphilotes centralis (Barnes & McDunnough, 1917)
 - Euphilotes columbiae (Matoni, 1954) Columbian blue
 - Euphilotes ellisi (Shields, 1975) – Ellis dotted-blue
 - Euphilotes enoptes (Boisduval, 1852) – Dotted blue
 - Euphilotes glaucon (Edwards, 1871) Glaucon blue or summit blue
 - Ephilotes heracleoides (Kohler & Warren, 2021) Pumice blue
 Euphilotes intermedia(Barnes & McDunnough, 1917) – intermediate dotted-blue INVALID- Euphilotes mojave (Watson & Comstock, 1920) – Mojave dotted-blue
 - Euphilotes pallescens (Tilden & Downey, 1955) – Pale blue, pallid dotted-blue or pallid blue
 - Euphilotes rita (Barnes & McDunnough, 1916) – Rita blue or desert buckwheat blue
 - Euphilotes spaldingi (Barnes & McDunnough, 1917) – Colorado-Plateau blue
 
See also
References
- ↑ U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service profile of Smith's blue butterfly
 - ↑ Euphilotes at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
 - ↑ Euphilotes, DiscoverLife
 
External links
Wikispecies has information related to Euphilotes.
- Taxonomy tree for genus Euphilotes
 - Euphilotes, Butterflies and Moths of North America
 
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