white butterfly with a line of yellow 'eyes' on wings - Plebejus

Plebejus - Moved

Moved from Blues, Coppers, Hairstreaks, Harvesters.

… Roy Cohutta Brown, 7 November, 2020 - 2:36pm

Moved to where? and why?

… jag_49, 7 November, 2020 - 3:03pm

Moved

Moved from family to genus. Look above the photo.

… Roy Cohutta Brown, 7 November, 2020 - 3:08pm

Moved

Moved from ID Request.

… Tyler Hedlund, 21 October, 2019 - 8:32am

Blue

One of the blues, probably a Plebejus species, but I don't have much practice with the western species.

… Ken Allison, 8 October, 2019 - 11:17am

Thanks for giving me a starti

Thanks for giving me a starting point. Is Plebejus melissa the same as Lycaeides melissa? I kind of think that's what it is - 'Butterflies of Alberta' (Bird et al.) has the latter, but not the former; wondering if there's been a taxonomic name change?

… jag_49, 8 October, 2019 - 12:33pm

Name Change Info

Info, synonyms and taxonomic changes.

… Roy Cohutta Brown, 7 November, 2020 - 2:41pm

I would assume so - Lycaeides

I would assume so - Lycaeides is missing from Butterflies of America, and Wikipedia lists it as a synonym of Plebejus. Unfortunately not sure of an actual authoritative source for butterfly nomenclature/synonymization the way we have for flies...

… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 8 October, 2019 - 12:52pm

Seems

Seems to be in a state of flux, depending on what author, organization, USA, Europe, full moon, etc.

Info, synonyms and taxonomic changes.

Seems like BOA is using Pelham, but not sure about BG.

… Roy Cohutta Brown, 7 November, 2020 - 2:46pm

...or plants! B of Alberta wa

...or plants! B of Alberta was published in 1995, with no recent reprints that I'm aware of, so it's quite possible there's been a taxonomic change.
I am going with Plebejus mellisa, as I think that is the closest match. Thank you both.

… jag_49, 8 October, 2019 - 3:22pm

Plant names

For Canada, I use https://data.canadensys.net/vascan/search?lang=en

for plant names. Luc Brouillet keeps it up-dated.

… Ken Allison, 8 October, 2019 - 4:40pm