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Icaricia Lupini
''Icaricia lupini'', the lupine blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found from south-western Canada, south through much of mountainous and intermountain western United States and high plains to northern Mexico. The wingspan is 22–29 mm. Adults are on wing from June to August in one generation in the Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada of eastern California. Elsewhere, there are several generations from March to July. The larvae feed on ''Eriogonum umbellatum'' and ''Eriogonum fasciculatum''. Adults feed on flower nectar. The hairs of the caterpillars can cause skin irritation (urticaria). Subspecies *''Icaricia lupini lupini'' (California) *''Icaricia lupini monticola'' (California) *''Icaricia lupini chlorina'' *''Icaricia lupini texanus'' (Arizona) *''Icaricia lupini argentata'' (California) External links Profile at Butterflies and Moths of North America {{Taxonbar, from=Q62112787, from2=Q425600 Icaricia Butterflies of North America Fauna of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Baptiste Boisduval
Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour de Boisduval (24 June 1799 – 30 December 1879) was a French lepidopterist, botanist, and physician. He was one of the most celebrated lepidopterists of France, and was the co-founder of the Société entomologique de France. While best known abroad for his work in entomology, he started his career in botany, collecting a great number of French plant specimens and writing broadly on the topic throughout his career, including the textbook ''Flores française'' in 1828. Early in his career, he was interested in Coleoptera and allied himself with both Jean Théodore Lacordaire and Pierre André Latreille. He was the curator of the Pierre Françoise Marie Auguste Dejean collection in Paris and described many species of beetles, as well as butterflies and moths, resulting from the voyages of the ''Astrolabe'', the expedition ship of Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse and the '' Coquille'', that of Louis Isidore Duperrey. He left P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |