Euphilotes

Life-forms

Familia: Scarabaeidae
Subfamilia: Cetoniinae
Tribus: Cetoniini
Subtribus: Euphoriina
Genus: Euphoria
Species (63): E. abreona – E. anneae – E. areata – E. avita – E. basalis – E. biguttata – E. bispinis – E. boliviensis – E. candezei – E. canaliculata – E. canescens – E. casselberryi – E. chontalensis – E. devulsa – E. dimidiata – E. diminuta – E. discicollis – E. eximia – E. fascifera – E. fulgida – E. fulveola – E. geminata – E. hera – E. herbacea – E. hidrocalida – E. hirtipes – E. histrionica – E. humilis – E. inda – E. insignis – E. iridescens – E. kernii – E. lacandona – E. leprosa – E. lesueuri – E. leucographa – E. levinotata – E. limbalis – E. lurida – E. mayita – E. melancholica – E. montana – E. monticola – E. mystica – E. nicaraguensis – E. paradisiaca – E. pilipennis – E. prepsli – E. pulchella – E. quadricollis – E. schotti – E. semicostata – E. sepulcralis – E. solidula – E. sonorae – E. steinheili – E. subguttata – E. submaculosa – E. subtomentosa – E. verticalis – E. vestita – E. vittata – E. westermanni – E. yucateca
Synonymy

Anatropis
Erirhipidia
Erirhipis
Euphorhipis
Euphoriaspis
Euphoriopsis
Goraqua
Haplophoria
Isorhipina
Rhipiphoria
Stephanucha

[source: Orozco (2012: 10)]
Name

Euphoria Burmeister, 1842: 370

Type species: Cetonia sepulcralis Fabricius, 1801 by subsequent designation by Casey, 1915.

References
Primary references

Burmeister, H.C.C. 1842. Handbuch der Entomologie. Dritter Band. Coleoptera Lamellicornia Melitophila. Theodor Christian Friedrich Enslin, Berlin. xx + 826 + 1 pp. Reference page. [original description: p. 370]
Casey, T.L. 1915: Memoirs on the Coleoptera. VI, 460 pp. Lancaster, Pennsylvania: New Era Printing Company. BHL (PDF)

Additional references

Hardy, A.R. 1988: Studies in the Euphoriina of the Americas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). 1. Introduction and generic concepts. Coleopterists bulletin, 42 (1): 1–9. JSTOR
Orozco, J., 2012. Monographic revision of the American genus Euphoria Burmeister, 1842 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae. The Coleopterists Society Monographs 11: 1-182
Orozco, J. & Philips, T.K., 2010. Phylogenetic analysis of the American genus Euphoria and related groups based on morphological characters of adults (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Cetoniini). Insect Systematics and Evolution, 41:39-54 DOI: 10.1163/187631210X12628483805310

Links

Schoolmeesters P. 2017. Scarabs: World Scarabaeidae Database (version Jul 2016). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. 2017. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 30th January 2017. Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858. Reference page. [accessed on May 2, 2017]

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Euphilotes
Species: E. ancilla – E. battoides – E. baueri – E. bernardino – E. ellisi – E. enoptes – E. intermedia – E. mojave – E. pallescens – E. rita – E. spaldingi
Name

Euphilotes Mattoni, 1977.

References

Mattoni, R. H. T., 1977. The Scolitantidini I. Two new genera and a generic rearrangement. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera. 16(4): 223-242. Reference page.
Mattoni, R. H. T., 1988 (1989): The Euphilotes battoides complex: recognition of a species and description of a new subspecies. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 27 (3-4): 173-185. Reference page.
Shields, O., 1975: Studies on the North American Philotes (Lycaenidae). IV. Taxonomic and biological notes, and new subspecies. Bulletin of the Allyn Museum 28: 1–36. [1]
Ugelvig, L.V., Vila, R., Pierce, N.E. & Nash, D.R., 2011. A phylogenetic revision of the Glaucopsyche section (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), with special focus on the Phengaris–Maculinea clade. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61(1): 237–243. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.05.016 Paywall. Reference page.

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.
Contents

1 Species
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

Species

Listed alphabetically:[2][3]

Euphilotes ancilla (Barnes & McDunnough, 1918) – Rocky Mountain dotted 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 ellisi (Shields, 1975) – Ellis dotted-blue
Euphilotes enoptes (Boisduval, 1852) – dotted Blue
Euphilotes glaucon (Edwards, 1871) synonym of Euphilotes battoides
Euphilotes intermedia (Barnes & McDunnough, 1917) – intermediate dotted-blue INVALID
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