Mission blue butterfly
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"Mission Blue" redirects here. For the film about marine conservation, see Sylvia Earle.
The Mission blue (Icaricia icarioides missionensis)[1] is a blue or lycaenid butterfly subspecies native to the San Francisco Bay Area of the United States. The butterfly has been declared as endangered by the US federal government.[2] It is a subspecies of Boisduval's blue (Icaricia icarioides).
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Icaricia |
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Subspecies: | I. i. missionensis |
Trinomial name | |
Icaricia icarioides missionensis (Hovanitz, 1937) | |
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