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some images of Palos Verdes & the rarest butterfly in the world
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Malaga Cove - at the North approach to Palos Verdes peninsula:
533 × 800 - pbase.com
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The Palos Verdes Blue (Glaucopsyche lygdamus palosverdesensis) is a small
endangered butterfly native to thePalos Verdes Peninsula in southwest Los
Angeles County, California. As its distribution has been proven to be limited to
one single site it has one of the best claims to being the world's rarest
butterfly.
Conservation status
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Division: Rhopalocera
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Genus: Glaucopsyche
Species: G. lygdamus
Subspecies: G. l. palosverdesensis
Trinomial name
Glaucopsyche lygdamus palosverdesensis
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