Resembling the butterfly family Lycaenidae, these moths can be told apart by their antennae which taper to a point or may be very subtly clubbed.
Dudleya cymosa is the larval host plant for the Sonoran blue butterfly, Philotes sonorensis (Lycaenidae)
The Arhopala butterflies described by Fabricius: A. centaurus is from Java, A. democritus from Phuket (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), Entomological science, Volume 9 Issue 3, Pages 295 - 311, Published Online: 27 Sep 2006, Richard I. Vane-Wright and Harish Gaonkar, Department of Entomology, the Natural History Museum, London, UK (September 2006).
Hypochrysops is a genus of "Blues", butterflies in the family Lycaenidae, which is notorious for its myrmecophily.
Myrmecophilous associations are best known in butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
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Ants tend a wide variety of insect species, most notably lycaenid butterfly caterpillars and hemipterans.
Similarly, larvae of the butterfly genus Maculinea (Lepidoptera, family Lycaenidae) live inside Myrmica nests where they are either directly fed by ants or prey upon ant brood.
George Thomas Bethune-Baker (20 July 1857, Birmingham - 1 December 1944, Eastbourne) was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera, especially Lycaenidae.
The Scarce Silverstreak, Iraota rochana is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly with several subspecies found in (Manipur, Burma, Java, Borneo, Sumatra, Malaya, Langkawi, Thailand, Singapore, Sulawesi and the Philippines.
Riodinidae, the family of metalmark butterflies (formerly included in the Lycaenidae or "Erycinidae" as subfamily Riodininae)
Orachrysops niobe, another member of the Lycaenidae from South Africa, has a very similar life-cycle.
Bindahara, alternatively Stilbon, a genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.
The Dark Grass Blue or African Grass Blue (Zizeeria knysna), is a species of blue butterfly found in Africa, on Cyprus and the Iberian Peninsula.