Scarce Large Blue

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Scarce Large Blue

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

The Scarce Large Blue (Maculinea teleius) is a species of butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Poland, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Spain, Switzerland, and Ukraine.

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

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