Lycaena tityrus (Poda, 1761)

Common names

🇬🇧 Sooty Copper
🇫🇷 Cuivré fuligineux, Argus myope, Polyommate Xanthé

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Lycaeninae
Tribe: Lycaenini
Genus: Lycaena
Species: Lycaena tityrus

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

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

Photographs

img/lycaena-tityrus.webp — Lycaena tityrus

img/lycaena-tityrus-2.webp — Lycaena tityrus

img/lycaena-tityrus-3.webp — Lycaena tityrus ♂ foraging on a flower of Mentha suaveolens

img/lycaena-tityrus-4.webp — Lycaena tityrus sitting on a flower of Trifolium repens

img/lycaena-tityrus-6.webp — Lycaena tityrus foraging on a flower of Mentha suaveolens

img/lycaena-tityrus-5.webp — Lycaena tityrus

Sources

van Swaay, C., Wynhoff, I., Verovnik, R., Wiemers, M., López Munguira, M., Maes, D., Sasic, M., Verstrael, T., Warren, M., & Settele, J. (2010). Lycaena tityrus (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2010. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/174448/7073921