Lampides

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Lampides
Female peablue or long-tailed blue (Lampides boeticus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Polyommatinae
Tribe:	Polyommatini
Genus:	Lampides Hübner, [1819]
Synonyms
Cosmolyce Toxopeus, 1927 Lampidella Hemming, 1933

Lampides is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

It currently consists of one species: Lampides boeticus (Linnaeus, 1767), the peablue or long-tailed blue. Lampides used to contain other species, most of which have now been moved to the genus Jamides.

Wikispecies has information related to Lampides.

• Lampides boeticus at Captain's European Butterfly Guide
• Lampides boeticus Archived link