Purple hairstreak

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Purple hairstreak
Male Alners Gorse, Dorset
Female underside Whitecross Green Wood, Oxfordshire
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Favonius
Species:	F. quercus
Binomial name
Favonius quercus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1]
Bithys quercus subsp. interjecta Verity, 1919 Favonia quercus (Linnaeus, 1758) Neozephyrus quercus (Linnaeus, 1758) Neozephyrus quercus subsp. interjecta (Verity, 1919) Neozephyrus quercus subsp. quercus Papilio quercus Linnaeus, 1758 Quercusia quercus (Linnaeus, 1758) Quercusia quercus subsp. bellus (Gerhard, 1853) Quercusia quercus subsp. caerulea (Schwingenschuss, 1953) Quercusia quercus subsp. depuncta (Lempke, 1955) Quercusia quercus subsp. iberica (Staudinger, 1901) Quercusia quercus subsp. infraflavomaculata (Lempke, 1955) Quercusia quercus subsp. inframaculata (Lempke, 1955) Quercusia quercus subsp. interjecta (Verity, 1919) Quercusia quercus subsp. longicauda (Riley, 1921) Quercusia quercus subsp. quercus Quercusia quercus subsp. violacea (Niepelt, 1914) Ruralis quercus (Linnaeus, 1758) Thecla quercus (Linnaeus, 1758) Thecla quercus subsp. bellus Gerhard, 1853 Zephyrus iberica Staudinger, 1901 Zephyrus quercus (Linnaeus, 1758) Zephyrus quercus subsp. caerulea Schwingenschuss, 1953

The purple hairstreak (Favonius quercus) is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae distributed throughout much of Europe,^[2] North Africa, Anatolia, Caucasia, and Transcaucasia.^[3] The larva feeds on Quercus robur, Quercus petraea, Quercus cerris and Quercus ilex.