Xerces blue
English
Alternative forms
- Xerxes blue
Noun
Xerces blue (plural Xerces blues)
- A recently extinct species of gossamer-winged butterfly (Lycaenidae), Glaucopsyche xerces.
- 2010, Robert Michael Pyle, Mariposa Road:
- Last seen at the Presidio, the Xerces blue finally passed from existence in 1943.
- 2012, Peggy L Fiedler, Conservation Biology, p. 180:
- In fact, the xerces blue survived that first wave of habita destruction, only to succumb in the 1940s to continuing development especially of sand dune habitats.
- 2015, Rebecca Solnit, ‘Middle-Aged and Dishevelled’, London Review of Books, vol. 28 no. 6:
- The Brown Satyr butterfly, endemic to San Francisco, where I live, became extinct sometime in the 19th century, and the Xerxes Blue vanished during World War Two when its Golden Gate habitat was overtaken by military expansion.
- 2010, Robert Michael Pyle, Mariposa Road:
References
Xerces blue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Glaucopsyche on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Glaucopsyche xerces on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons