What is Lycaenidae?
{{Taxobox | name = Lycaenidae | image = Peablue October 2007 Osaka Japan.jpg | image_width = 220px | image_caption = Peablue<br/>''[[Lampides boeticus]]'' | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Arthropod]]a | subphylum = [[Hexapoda]] | classis = [[Insect]]a | ordo = [[Lepidoptera]] | unranked_familia = [[Rhopalocera]] | superfamilia = [[Papilionoidea]] | familia = '''Lycaenidae'''}} The '''Lycaenidae''' are the second-largest [[family (biology)|family]] of [[butterfly|butterflies]], with about 6000 species worldwide.<ref>Fiedler, K. 1996. Host-plant relationships of lycaenid butterflies: large-scale patterns, interactions with plant chemistry, and mutualism with ants. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 80(1):259-267 doi:10.1007/BF00194770 [http://www.springerlink.com/content/rmrv30142015l422/]{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> They are also called '''gossamer-winged butterflies'''. The family includes many beautiful species. Some, like the [[Palos Verdes blue]], are critically endangered. The Lycaenids were favourites of the [[Russians|Russian]] [[novelist]] and lepidopterist [[Vladimir Nabokov]]. == References == <references/> {{-}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Lycaenidae|*]]