Silvery Blue

Glaucopsyche lygdamus (Doubleday 1842)

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Glaucopsyche lygdamus (Silvery Blue) is a species of butterflies in the family gossamer-winged butterflies. They visit flowers of stork's bill, Virginia strawberry, Menzies' fiddleneck, and fiddleneck.

EOL has data for 12 attributes, including:

Body symmetry
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/body_symmetry
- Definition: overall repetitive or reflective pattern in the body of one individual of this taxon. eg: bilateral symmetry, rotational symmetry, radial symmetry
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bilaterally symmetric
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324
- Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves
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cellularity
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001992
- Definition: An organismal quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting cells. [ PATOC:GVG ]
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multicellular
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993
- Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]
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developmental mode
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/DevelopmentalMode
- Definition: Broad recognized categories describing development, the process by which organisms grow and mature
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holometabolous
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/holometabolous
- Definition: Development of insects with complete metamorphosis which involves a pupal stage.
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eats
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002470
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Salvia leucophylla Greene (San Luis purple sage)
elevation
- URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/verbatimElevation
- Definition: The original description of the elevation (altitude, usually above sea level) of the Location.
- Comment: Example: "100-200 m". For discussion see http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/wiki/Location
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600 m
feeding structure
- URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/FeedingStructure
- Definition: The morphological structure of body parts used to ingest food.
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biting-chewing mouthparts
- URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/bitingChewing
- Definition: Mouthparts adapted to cutting and grinding food particles using opposable mandibles with a mola (grinding surface).
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geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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Alaska
- URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q797
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habitat
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002303
- Definition: x has habitat y if: x is an organism, y is a habitat, and y can sustain and allow the growth of a population of x
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stream
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000023
- Definition: Linear body of water flowing on the Earth's surface.
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has host
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002454
- Attribution: From OBO Relation Ontology
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Vicia cracca L. (bird vetch)
visits
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002618
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Thlaspi arvense L. (field pennycress)
visits flowers of
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002622
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Taraxacum officinale Weber ex Wigg. (Common Dandelion)
visual system
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002104
- Definition: The sensory system subserving the sense of vision.
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apposition eyes
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IDOMAL_0002229
- Definition: A compound eye with no separation between the crystalline-cone layer and the retinula, each rhabdom receiving light only from its own corneal lens.
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Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Silvery Blue. View this species on GBIF

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Silvery Blue includes 13 children: