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Nabicula subcoleoptrata

Nabicula subcoleoptrata

Classification

Class
Insecta
Family
Nabidae

The Karner blue (Plebejus samuelis) is an endangered species of small blue butterfly found in some Great Lakes states, small areas of New Jersey, the Capital District region of New York, and southern New Hampshire (where it is the official state butterfly) in the United States. The butterfly, whose life cycle depends on the wild blue lupine flower (Lupinus perennis), was classified as an endangered species in the United States in 1992. First considered a subspecies of Plebejus melissa, it was first identified and described by novelist Vladimir Nabokov.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 1