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,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service profile of Smith's blue butterfly such as the Smith's blue, Euphilotes enoptes smithi.
Species Listed alphabetically:Euphilotes at Markku Savela's website on LepidopteraEuphilotes, DiscoverLife Euphilotes ancilla (Barnes & McDunnough, 1918) – Rocky Mountain dotted blue Euphilotes allyni (Shields, 1975) – El Segundo 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 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
For Euphilotes intermedia (Barnes & McDunnough, 1917) – intermediate dotted-blue INVALID, see Euphilotes glaucon intermedia (W. Barnes & McDunnough, 1917)
See also Carbonera Creek Maritime coast range ponderosa pine forest
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Taxonomy tree for genus Euphilotes Euphilotes, Butterflies and Moths of North America