Zizina labradus

Common grass blue
This specimen, perched on a rose, is approximately 10 mm in size
At Cape Hillsborough National Park, Australia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Zizina
Species:
Z. labradus
Binomial name
Zizina labradus
(Godart, [1824])[1][2]
Subspecies
  • Z. l. labdalon
  • Z. l. labradus

Zizina labradus, the common grass blue, grass blue,[3] or clover blue,[4] is a small Australian butterfly of the family Lycaenidae.

  1. ^ dos Passos, Cyril F. (1958). "The dates and authorships of the names proposed in Volume 9 of Encyclopédie Méthodique by Godart and Latreille, 1819–[1824]" (PDF). The Lepidopterists' News. 12 (3–4): 119–120.
  2. ^ Natural History Museum; Pitkin, Brian; Jenkins, Paul (2007). "Butterflies and Moths of the World: Generic Names and their Type-species". Natural History Museum, London, Official Website. The Natural History Museum, London. doi:10.5519/s93616qw. Retrieved 2008-07-31.
  3. ^ "Bioinformatics: Victorian Butterfly Images". Museum Victoria Official Website. Museum Victoria, Australia. n.d. Archived from the original on June 26, 2007. Retrieved 2008-07-30.
  4. ^ "Zizina labradus". Discover nature. James Cook University. 2008-02-04. Retrieved 2008-07-30.