Lampides boeticus (Linnaeus, 1767)

Common names

🇬🇧 Long-tailed Blue
🇫🇷 Azuré porte-queue, Argus porte-queue, Porte-Queue bleu strié , Lycène du Baguenaudier, Strié

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Subtribe: Lampidina
Genus: Lampides
Species: Lampides boeticus

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern

Photographs

img/lampides-boeticus-4.webp — Lampides boeticus foraging on a flower of Mentha suaveolens

img/lampides-boeticus-5.webp — Lampides boeticus foraging on a flower of Mentha suaveolens

img/lampides-boeticus-6.webp — Lampides boeticus foraging on a flower of Linaria vulgaris

img/lampides-boeticus.webp — Lampides boeticus

img/lampides-boeticus-2.webp — Lampides boeticus foraging on a flower of Trifolium sp.

img/lampides-boeticus-3.webp — Lampides boeticus foraging on a flower of Trifolium sp.

Sources

van Swaay, C., Wynhoff, I., Verovnik, R., Wiemers, M., López Munguira, M., Maes, D., Sasic, M., Verstrael, T., Warren, M., & Settele, J. (2010). Lampides boeticus (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2010. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/174427/7069849