Candalides margarita

Species of butterfly

Margarita's blue

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Lycaenidae
Genus:  | Candalides
Species:  |

C. margarita

Binomial name
Candalides margarita

(Semper, [1879])[1]

Synonyms

* Holochila margarita Semper, [1879][2]
* Candalides maria Bethune-Baker, 1908

Candalides margarita, or Margarita's blue, is a species of butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Georg Semper in 1879.[2] It is found in Australia (along the east coast of Queensland and New South Wales) and New Guinea.

## Subspecies

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* Candalides margarita margarita (Australia: Cape York to Port Macquarie)
* Candalides margarita maria Bethune-Baker, 1908 (Aru, Misool, Waigeu, West Irian to Papua)

## References

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1. ^ Savela, Markku (20 November 2018). "Candalides margarita (Semper, [1879])". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
2. ^ a b Semper, Georg (1879). "Beitrag zur Rhopalocerenfauna von Australien". Journal des Museum Godeffroy. 5 (14): 161–162.

Taxon identifiers

Candalides margarita|

* Wikidata: Q5031602
* Wikispecies: Candalides margarita
* BioLib: 653836
* BOLD: 363616
* GBIF: 4709131
* iNaturalist: 502354
* Insecta.pro: 50451
* IRMNG: 10990783
* LepIndex: 202906
* NCBI: 1371720

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