Dusky Large Blue

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Dusky Large Blue

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Maculinea
Species: M. nausithous
Binomial name
Maculinea nausithous
(Bergstrasser, 1779)

The Dusky Large Blue (Maculinea nausithous) is a species of butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Republic of, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Spain, Switzerland, Croatia and Ukraine.

Life cycle of this species is strongly related to Sanguisorba officinalis (Great Burnet).

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