LYCAENIDAE

Blues

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Name source
Australian Faunal Directory
Rank
family
Data links
LSID
JSON / WMS/ RDF

Life Science Identifier (LSID):

urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:80e6a235-523c-4e52-a9b6-aedb47032cf5

LSIDs are persistent, location-independent,resource identifiers for uniquely naming biologically significant resources including species names, concepts, occurrences, genes or proteins, or data objects that encode information about them. To put it simply, LSIDs are a way to identify and locate pieces of biological information on the web.

Data Links

JSON

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WMS

To use WMS services, copy and paste the following GetCapabilities URL into your OGC client (e.g. uDIG, ESRI ArcGIS)
http://biocache.ala.org.au/ws/ogc/ows?q=family:LYCAENIDAE
For higher taxa, this will give you a hierarchical listing of layers for each taxon.

RDF

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Species presence

 Recorded In Australia
 Terrestrial Habitats

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Description

The subfamilies Lipteninae, Poritiinae, Miletinae, Lycaeninae and Curetinae are not found in Australia; however, Lycaeninae are found both in New Guinea and New Zealand (Gibbs 1980).

Small to large; eyes often emarginate at base of antenna, or contiguous with antennal socket, often hairy; maxillary palps absent; labial palps ascending; epiphysis absent, fore leg in male somewhat reduced in most groups, normal in female, spurs 0-2-2, 0-1-1 or 0-0-0; fore wing often lacking 1 or 2 branches of R, 1A + 2A sometimes forked; Sc + R 1 diverging from Rs near base, almost always with 2 anal veins, margin often produced into 1 or more tails. ... source: What bug is that

Online resources

Names and sources

Accepted name Source
LYCAENIDAE

Common Names

Common name Source
Blues
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Coppers
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Hairstreaks
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Working classification

kingdom
ANIMALIA
phylum
ARTHROPODA
subphylum
HEXAPODA
class
INSECTA
suprageneric
Pterygotes
order
LEPIDOPTERA
zoological_division
DITRYSIA
superfamily
PAPILIONOIDEA
family
LYCAENIDAE  Recorded in Australia
subfamily
MILETINAE  Recorded in Australia
subfamily
POLYOMMATINAE  Recorded in Australia
subfamily
THECLINAE  Recorded in Australia
genus
Curetis: King's Worm Lizards  [inferred placement]
genus
Epimastidia  [inferred placement]

Occurrence records

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Name references found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library

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