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Leptotes pirithous, the Glossary

Leptotes pirithous, commonly known as Lang's short-tailed blue or common zebra blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae.^[1]

41 relations: Adalbert Seitz, Africa, Alfalfa, Anatolia, Burkea africana, Butterfly, Calluna, Carl Linnaeus, Crataegus, Fabaceae, Family (biology), France, Genista, Geranium bronze, Himalayas, Indigofera, ISimangaliso Wetland Park, Italy, KwaZulu-Natal, Lampides boeticus, Lotus (genus), Lycaenidae, Lythrum, Lythrum salicaria, Madagascar, Melilotus, Melilotus albus, Mundulea, Onobrychis viciifolia, Peanut, Plumbaginaceae, Plumbago auriculata, Portugal, Quercus suber, Rosaceae, Santo Antão, Cape Verde, Spain, Trifolium alexandrinum, Ulex, Vigna, Wingspan.
Butterflies described in 1767
Lepidoptera of Cape Verde
Leptotes (butterfly)

Adalbert Seitz

Friedrich Joseph Adalbert Seitz, (24 February 1860 in Mainz – 5 March 1938 in Darmstadt) was a German physician and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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Alfalfa

Alfalfa (Medicago sativa), also called lucerne, is a perennial flowering plant in the legume family Fabaceae.

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Anatolia

Anatolia (Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula or a region in Turkey, constituting most of its contemporary territory.

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Burkea africana

Burkea africana, the wild syringa (siri), is a deciduous, medium-sized, spreading, flat-topped tree which grows in the woodlands and savannas of sub-Saharan Africa.

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Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran suborder Rhopalocera, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight.

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Calluna

Calluna vulgaris, common heather, ling, or simply heather, is the sole species in the genus Calluna in the flowering plant family Ericaceae.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.

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Crataegus

Crataegus, commonly called hawthorn, quickthorn, thornapple,Voss, E. G. 1985.

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Fabaceae

The Fabaceae or Leguminosae, Article 18.5 states: "The following names, of long usage, are treated as validly published:....Leguminosae (nom. alt.: Fabaceae; type: Faba Mill.);...

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Genista

Genista is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae, native to open habitats such as moorland and pasture in Europe and western Asia.

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Geranium bronze

The geranium bronze or brun des pélargoniums in French (Cacyreus marshalli), is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. Leptotes pirithous and geranium bronze are butterflies of Europe.

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Himalayas

The Himalayas, or Himalaya.

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Indigofera

Indigofera is a large genus of over 750 species of flowering plants belonging to the pea family Fabaceae.

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ISimangaliso Wetland Park

iSimangaliso Wetland Park (previously known as the Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park) is situated on the east coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, about north of Durban by road.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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KwaZulu-Natal

KwaZulu-Natal (also referred to as KZN; nicknamed "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the government merged the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province.

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Lampides boeticus

Lampides boeticus, the pea blue, or long-tailed blue, is a small butterfly that belongs to the lycaenids or gossamer-winged family. Leptotes pirithous and Lampides boeticus are butterflies described in 1767 and butterflies of Europe.

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Lotus (genus)

Lotus, a latinization of Greek lōtos (λωτός), is a genus of flowering plants that includes most bird's-foot trefoils (also known as bacon-and-eggs) and deervetches and contains many dozens of species distributed in the eastern hemisphere, including Africa, Europe, western, southern, and eastern Asia, and Australia and New Guinea.

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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.

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Lythrum

Lythrum is a genus of 38 species of flowering plants native to the temperate world.

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Lythrum salicaria

Lythrum salicaria or purple loosestrifeFlora of NW Europe: is a flowering plant belonging to the family Lythraceae.

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Madagascar

Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar and the Fourth Republic of Madagascar, is an island country comprising the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands.

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Melilotus

Melilotus, known as melilot, sweet clover, and kumoniga (from the Cumans),Bulgarian Folk Customs, Mercia MacDermott, pg 27 is a genus in the family Fabaceae (the same family that also includes the Trifolium clovers).

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Melilotus albus

Melilotus albus, known as honey clover, white melilot (UK), Bokhara clover (Australia), white sweetclover (US), and sweet clover, is a nitrogen-fixing legume in the family Fabaceae.

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Mundulea

Mundulea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae.

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Onobrychis viciifolia

Onobrychis viciifolia, also known as O. sativa or common sainfoin was an important forage legume in temperate regions until the 1950s.

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Peanut

The peanut (Arachis hypogaea), also known as the groundnut, goober (US), goober pea, pindar (US) or monkey nut (UK), is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds.

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Plumbaginaceae

Plumbaginaceae is a family of flowering plants, with a cosmopolitan distribution.

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Plumbago auriculata

Plumbago auriculata, the Cape leadwort, blue plumbago or Cape plumbago, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to South Africa and Mozambique.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.

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Quercus suber

Quercus suber, commonly called the cork oak, is a medium-sized, evergreen oak tree in the section ''Quercus'' sect. ''Cerris''.

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Rosaceae

Rosaceae (-si.eɪ), the rose family, is a medium-sized family of flowering plants that includes 4,828 known species in 91 genera.

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Santo Antão, Cape Verde

Santo Antão (Portuguese for "Saint Anthony") is the northwesternmost island of Cape Verde.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Trifolium alexandrinum

Trifolium alexandrinum (Egyptian clover, berseem clover) is an annual clover cultivated mostly in irrigated sub-tropical regions, and used as leguminous crop.

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Ulex

Ulex (commonly known as gorse, furze, or whin) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae.

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Vigna

Vigna is a genus of plants in the legume family, Fabaceae, with a pantropical distribution.

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Wingspan

The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptotes_pirithous

Also known as Common Pea Blue, Common Zebra Blue, Cupido telicanus f. insulana, Lampides telicanus, Lang's Short Tailed Blue, Lang's Short-Tailed Blue, Langs Short Tailed Blue, Langs Short-Tailed Blue, Leptotes pirithous capverti, Leptotes pirithous insulanus, Leptotes pirithous pirithous, Papilio pirithous, Papilio plinius, Papilio telicanus, Syntarucus pirithous.

Leptotes pirithous, the Glossary

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Butterflies described in 1767

Lepidoptera of Cape Verde

Leptotes (butterfly)

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