Euphilotes

Euphilotes is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae, which consists of a number of species found in western North America. Some of the species are endangered, such as the Smith's blue, Euphilotes enoptes smithi.

==Species== Listed alphabetically: Euphilotes ancilla (Barnes & McDunnough, 1918) – Rocky Mountain dotted blue Euphilotes allyni (Shields, 1975) – El Segundo blue Euphilotes battoides (Behr, 1867) – Square-spotted blue or buckwheat blue Euphilotes baueri (Shields, 1975) – Bauer's dotted-blue Euphilotes bernardino (Barnes & McDunnough, 1916) – Bernardino blue or Bernardino dotted-blue Euphilotes centralis (Barnes & McDunnough, 1917) Euphilotes columbiae (Matoni, 1954) – Columbian blue Euphilotes ellisi (Shields, 1975) – Ellis dotted-blue Euphilotes enoptes (Boisduval, 1852) – Dotted blue Euphilotes glaucon (Edwards, 1871) – Glaucon blue or summit blue Ephilotes heracleoides (Kohler & Warren, 2021) – Pumice blue Euphilotes mojave (Watson & Comstock, 1920) – Mojave dotted-blue Euphilotes pallescens (Tilden & Downey, 1955) – Pale blue, pallid dotted-blue or pallid blue Euphilotes rita (Barnes & McDunnough, 1916) – Rita blue or desert buckwheat blue Euphilotes spaldingi (Barnes & McDunnough, 1917) – Colorado-Plateau blue