Euphilotes

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

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.

Species[]

Listed alphabetically:^[2]^[3]

Euphilotes ancilla (Barnes & McDunnough, 1918) – Rocky Mountain dotted blue
Euphilotes battoides (Behr, 1867) – square-spotted blue or buckwheat blue
(Shields, 1975) – Bauer's dotted-blue
Euphilotes bernardino (Barnes & McDunnough, 1916) – Bernardino blue or Bernardino dotted-blue
Euphilotes centralis (Barnes & McDunnough, 1917)
(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