Lycaenidae

family of insects
Taxon taxon Q158717
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Summary

Lycaenidae is a taxon[1]. Lycaenidae ranks in the top 0.79% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,236 views/month, #1,541 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Papilionoidea[4]
  • Taxon name: Lycaenidae[5]
  • Commons category: Lycaenidae[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Lycaenidae[7]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[9]
  • Taxon common name: modráskovití[10], Blåfugle[11], Bläulinge[12], Gossamer-winged butterflies[13], Sinisiivet[14], Boglárkák[15], シジミチョウ科[16], 부전나빗과[17], Melsviai[18], Modraszkowate[19], Голубянки[20], Juvelvingar[21], Họ Bướm xanh[22], 灰蝶科[23]
  • This zoological name is coordinate with: Lycaenoidea[24], Lycaeninae[25], Lycaenini[26]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[27]

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Identifiers

Lycaenidae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 47923[28]. Lycaenidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 27544[29]. Lycaenidae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 855[30]. Lycaenidae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 5473[31]. Lycaenidae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 117236[32].

Why It Matters

Lycaenidae has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] Lycaenidae is known by 54 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [29] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [32] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [30] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [31] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  26. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 1d ago · YukiKoKo · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 62
    Taxon common name → {'lang': 'cs', 'text': 'modráskovití'}, {'lang': 'da', 'text': 'Blåfugle'}, {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Bläulinge'} +18
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'be', 'bg', 'ca', 'ceb', 'co', 'cs', 'cy', 'da'
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Taxon common name: veldburgers"
  2. 5w ago · Putnik · 2026-09-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id → melsviai
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id: melsviai"
  3. 10w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-08-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Salzburgwiki id → 90138
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Salzburgwiki id: 90138, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/102088349|Bläulinge (#102088349)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/3987|Salzburgwiki – Taxons]] "
  4. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Papilionoidea
    This zoological name is coordinate with → Lycaenoidea, Lycaeninae, Lycaenini
    Taxon rank → family
    Instance of → taxon
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007541049305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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