Lycaenidae | |
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The lairge blue, a lycaenid butterflee | |
Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Cless: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfaimily: | Papilionoidea |
Faimily: | Lycaenidae Leach, 1815 |
Subfaimilies | |
an see text or Leet o lycaenid genera |
Lycaenidae is the seicont-lairgest faimily o butterflees (ahint the Brush-fitit butterflees), wi ower 5,000 species warldwide,[1] whaur the memmers are cried gossamer-winged butterflees an aw.