Brephidium

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Brephidium is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.{{r|bamona}} They are known commonly as pygmy blues. The species of this genus have a disjunct distribution. Two of the three species are found in the Americas while the third is found in Africa.

Species

The following three species are in the genus Brephidium:{{r|pitt2006|bamona|pohl2016|funet}}

Brephidium exilis (Boisduval, 1852) – western pygmy blue (southern United States to South America)
Brephidium metophis (Wallengren, 1860) – South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Brephidium pseudofea (Morrison, 1873) – eastern pygmy blue (southeastern United States)

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|Pygmy blue (Brephidium exilis thompsoni) 2 (cropped).JPG|Brephidium exilis

|Eastern Pygmy Blue - Brephidium pseudofea, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Florida.jpg|Brephidium pseudofea

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References

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{{cite web|title=Butterflies and Moths of North America|url=http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Brephidium-exilis|website=www.butterfliesandmoths.org|access-date=24 December 2016}}

[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/lycaenidae/polyommatinae/brephidium/index.html#20799 Brephidium] at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera

Pittaway, A. R., T. B. Larsen, A. Legrain, J. Majer, Z. Weidenhoffer & M. Gillet. 2006. The establishment of an American butterfly in the Persian Gulf: Brephidium exilis (Boisduval, 1852) (Lycaenidae). Nota Lepidopterologica 29(1/2):3-14.

{{Cite report|title=Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico|date=2016|last1=Pohl |first1=Greg|last2=Patterson |first2=Bob|last3=Pelham |first3=Jonathan|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302570819|doi=10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287|doi-access=free}}

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Category:Lycaenidae genera

Category:Taxa named by Samuel Hubbard Scudder