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Definition of Genus Lycaena

1. Noun. Type genus of the Lycaenidae; small slender butterflies with upper surface of wings usually metallic blue or green or copper.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Lycaena

Literary usage of Genus Lycaena

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1914)
"Courvoisier, LG—Zur synonymic dcs genus Lycaena, 190, 1914, 143-70. Dukinfield-Jones, E.—New sps. of L.—Heterocera from SE Brazil, 36, ..."

2. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt (1890)
"This is a very poor country for Rhopalocera, scarcely any being found but the very commonest, species of the genus Lycaena. ..."

3. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1871)
"... clearly shown that this character is by no means absolutely distinctive, the males of several of the true genus Lycaena having very imperfect fore legs. ..."

4. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin (1909)
"Our common little English blue butterflies of the genus Lycaena, illustrate the various differences in colour between the sexes, ..."

5. The Butterflies of Great Britain, with Their Transformations, Delineated and by John Obadiah Westwood (1855)
"... the Hair-streaks being placed at first at the head of Polyommatus by Latreille, whilst we find the Coppers at the end of the genus Lycaena of Fabricius. ..."

6. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1906)
"... the type of the genus Lycaena, an action altogether ultra vires, as it had already been restricted to the " blues." lu 1829 (»p. cit., to. ..."

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