| Silvery Blue | |
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| G. l. couperi, Ottawa, Ontario | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Division: | Rhopalocera |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Tribe: | Polyommatini |
| Genus: | Glaucopsyche |
| Species: | G. lygamus |
| Binomial name | |
| Glaucopsyche lygdamus (Edward Doubleday, 1841) |
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The Silvery Blue (Glaucopsyche lygdamus) is a small butterfly native to North America. Upperside is a light blue in males, a dull grayish blue in females. Underside is gray with single row of round spots of differing sizes depending upon region.
G. lygdamus is found over much of the western United States and most of Canada extending north excepting most of Nunavut and the high Arctic islands. Wingspan is from 18 to 28 mm.[1][2]
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