Small copper
Lycaena phlaeas
Synonyms: Многоглазка пятнистая
Order Lepidoptera. Family Lycaenidae.
Photo: Zeynel Cebeci / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Description
Lycaena phlaeas, the small copper, American copper, or common copper, is a butterfly of the Lycaenids or gossamer-winged butterfly family.
Traits
- Wingspan
- 25–35 mm
- Flight period
- April–October
- Host plants
- dock, knotweed
- Generations per year
- 2–3
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Photographs
Pieter Cramer (1721 - 1776) and Caspar Stoll (between 1725 and 1730 - / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Links
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