| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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| ANIMALIA | ARTHROPODA | INSECTA | LEPIDOPTERA | LYCAENIDAE |
| Scientific Name: | Lycaena dispar | |||
| Species Authority: | (Haworth, 1802) | |||
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| Red List Category & Criteria: | Lower Risk/near threatened ver 2.3 | ||||||||||||
| Year Published: | 1996 | ||||||||||||
| Annotations: |
Needs updating
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| Assessor/s: | Gimenez Dixon, M. | ||||||||||||
| History: |
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| Range Description: | Locally but widely distributed in central Europe as far north as southern Finland, and across to Asia. Divided into three races: dispar formerly in Britain, batavus in the Netherlands (both single brooded), and rutilus (double brooded). The latter is declining in many European countries while batavus is reduced to two sites. |
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Native:
Armenia; Austria; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Belgium; Bulgaria; Czech Republic; Estonia; Finland; France; Georgia; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Italy; Kazakhstan; Latvia; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Moldova; Mongolia; Montenegro; Netherlands; Poland; Romania; Russian Federation; Serbia; Slovakia; Switzerland; Turkey; Ukraine; Uzbekistan
Regionally extinct:
United Kingdom
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| Habitat and Ecology: | Grows in a wide range of damp habitats (wetlands). |
| Systems: | Terrestrial |
| Citation: | Gimenez Dixon, M. 1996. Lycaena dispar. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 23 May 2012. |
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