#3035 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Purple-shot Copper

🇳🇱 Violette vuurvlinder ·Lycaena alciphron

LCleast concern 🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Michele Moroni · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Anne SORBES · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © Jérôme Albre · CC BY 4.0
5. Sliven municipality, Bulgaria:© SteveM4560 · CC BY 4.0
6. Provincia del Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Italia:© Mirko Tomasi · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 48100 Grezes, France:© CORDENOS Thierry · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Vence, France:© lohyck · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 3430 Carregal do Sal, Portugal:© zebedeugalinha · CC BY 4.0
10. Catania, Sicily, IT:© Tony · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The purple-shot copper ( Lycaena alciphron ) is a butterfly in the family of the Lycaenidae or copper butterflies and in the genus of the Lycaena .

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,905iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
5,905 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by S. A. von Rottemburg in 1775 (251 years ago).