Euphilotes is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae, which consists of a number of species found in western North America. Some of the species are endangered, such as the Smith's blue, Euphilotes enoptes smithi.

Species

Listed alphabetically:

• Euphilotes ancilla (Barnes & McDunnough, 1918) – Rocky Mountain dotted blue

• Euphilotes allyni (Shields, 1975) – El Segundo blue

• Euphilotes battoides (Behr, 1867) – Square-spotted blue or buckwheat blue

• Euphilotes baueri (Shields, 1975) – Bauer's dotted-blue

• Euphilotes bernardino (Barnes & McDunnough, 1916) – Bernardino blue or Bernardino dotted-blue

• Euphilotes centralis (Barnes & McDunnough, 1917)

• Euphilotes columbiae (Matoni, 1954) – Columbian blue

• Euphilotes ellisi (Shields, 1975) – Ellis dotted-blue

• Euphilotes enoptes (Boisduval, 1852) – Dotted blue

• Euphilotes glaucon (Edwards, 1871) – Glaucon blue or summit blue

• Ephilotes heracleoides (Kohler & Warren, 2021) – Pumice blue

• Euphilotes mojave (Watson & Comstock, 1920) – Mojave dotted-blue

• Euphilotes pallescens (Tilden & Downey, 1955) – Pale blue, pallid dotted-blue or pallid blue

• Euphilotes rita (Barnes & McDunnough, 1916) – Rita blue or desert buckwheat blue

• Euphilotes spaldingi (Barnes & McDunnough, 1917) – Colorado-Plateau blue

For Euphilotes intermedia (Barnes & McDunnough, 1917) – intermediate dotted-blue INVALID, see Euphilotes glaucon intermedia (W. Barnes & McDunnough, 1917)

See also

• Carbonera Creek

• Maritime coast range ponderosa pine forest

References

External links

• Taxonomy tree for genus

• , Butterflies and Moths of North America