Summary ²

The Silvery Blue (Glaucopsyche lygdamus) is a small butterfly native to North America. Upperside is a light blue in males, a dull grayish blue in females. Underside is gray with single row of round spots of differing sizes depending upon region.

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2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaucopsyche_lygdamus

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• iNaturalist.ca taxon page
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• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
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• Moths of North Carolina
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• Pacific Northwest Moths

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