Lucia (butterfly)
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| Lucia limbaria | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Tribe: | Luciini |
| Genus: | Lucia Swainson, 1833 |
| Species: | L. limbaria
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| Binomial name | |
| Lucia limbaria (Swainson, 1833)
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Lucia is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. It is monotypic, containing only the species Lucia limbaria, the small copper, of Australia.[1]
Lucia limbaria is commonly known as the Chequered Copper, Grassland Copper or Small Copper. The tiny, endemic though rarely seen butterfly, has been found in sporadic locations, in south eastern South Australia, south western Victoria and as far north as central Queensland.[2] Lucia limbaria is very dependent on Iridomyrmex rufoniger.
Its host plant Oxalis perennans is a native sorrel or Creeping Yellow Oxalis and possibly Oxalis corniculata ssp corniculata or Yellow Wood-sorrel.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Lucia Swainson, 1833" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ iNaturalist, Lucia limbaria Observations map
- ^ South Australian Butterflies and Moths (by Roger Grund, website managed by Butterfly Conservation SA) https://www.sabutterflies.org.au/lyca/limbaria.html
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