Euphilotes

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,^[1] such as the Smith's blue, Euphilotes enoptes smithi.

Euphilotes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Polyommatinae
Tribe:	Polyommatini
Genus:	Euphilotes (Mattoni, [1978])

Species

Listed alphabetically:^[2][3]

• 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