Wingspan
34 - 38 mm
Checklist Number
B44
Although this species has figured in early literature as a species found in the British Isles, it is considered doubtful that it has ever occurred naturally - a picture clouded by the apparently-liberal manner in which early entomological dealers made this species available.
Family: | Lycaenidae | Leach, 1815 |
Subfamily: | Lycaeninae | Leach, 1815 |
Tribe: | Lycaenini | Leach, 1815 |
Genus: | Lycaena | Fabricius, 1807 |
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Species: | hippothoe | (Linnaeus, 1761) |