Brephidium
| Brephidium | |
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| Brephidium exilis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Brephidium Scudder, 1876 |
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Brephidium is a genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. They are known commonly as pygmy blues. The members (species) of this genus have a disjunct distribution. Two of the three species are found in the Americas; the third is found in South Africa.
Species
- Brephidium exilis (Boisduval, 1852) - western pygmy blue
- Brephidium metophis (Wallengren, 1860)
- Brephidium pseudofea (Morrison, 1873)
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