| Bog copper | |
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| Saint-Narcisse-de-Rimouski, Québec | |
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| Female, Mer Bleue Conservation Area, Ottawa, Ontario | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Lycaena |
| Subgenus: | Epidemia |
| Species: | L. epixanthe
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| Binomial name | |
| Lycaena epixanthe | |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Lycaena epixanthe, also known as the bog copper or cranberry-bog copper, is a North American species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. Adults like to sip drops of dew clinging to leaves and almost exclusively nectar on their host plant, cranberries. Because of this, bog coppers will spend their entire lives within the area of a single acid bog.[2] Even though their flight is weak and close to the ground, bog coppers are hard to catch because of the habitat in which they live.[3] Also, 85% of the bog coppers life span is spent in the egg.[2] It is listed as a species of special concern in the US state of Connecticut.[4]
- ^ Ernest M. Shull (1987). The Butterflies of Indiana. Indiana Academy of Science. ISBN 0-253-31292-2
- ^ a b Rick Cech and Guy Tudor (2005). Butterflies of the East Coast. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. ISBN 0-691-09055-6
- ^ Jim P. Brock and Kenn Kaufman (2003). Butterflies of North America. Houghton Mifflin, New York, NY. ISBN 0-618-15312-8
- ^ "Connecticut's Endangered, Threatened and Special Concern Species 2015". State of Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Bureau of Natural Resources. Retrieved January 27, 2018.