''Icaricia'' is a
Nearctic
The Nearctic realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface.
The Nearctic realm covers most of North America, including Greenland, Central Florida, and the highlands of Mexico. The parts of North America ...
genus of
butterflies in the family
Lycaenidae
Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterf ...
. It was first described by the author and
lepidopterist
Lepidopterology ()) is a branch of entomology concerning the scientific study of moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies. Someone who studies in this field is a lepidopterist or, archaically, an aurelian.
Origins
Post-Renaissance, t ...
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (russian: link=no, Владимир Владимирович Набоков ; 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (), was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Bor ...
in 1945.
Species
Listed alphabetically:
''Icaricia''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
* '' Icaricia acmon'' (Westwood, 851
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Events
By place Asia
* Bagrat II Bagratuni, Armenian prince and leader of a rebellion against the Abbasi ...
* '' Icaricia cotundra'' (Scott & Fisher, 2006)
* ''Icaricia icarioides
''Icaricia icarioides'', or Boisduval's blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae found in North America. This butterfly has 25 recognized subspecies.
This species has been classified in at least four different genera since it was named by ...
'' (Boisduval, 1852)
* ''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 ...
'' (Boisduval, 1869)
* '' Icaricia neurona'' (Skinner, 1902)
* '' Icaricia saepiolus'' (Boisduval, 1852)
* '' Icaricia shasta'' (Edwards, 1862)
References
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Lycaenidae genera
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