| Purple hairstreak |
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Male
Alners Gorse, Dorset |
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Female underside
Whitecross Green Wood, Oxfordshire |
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| Scientific classification |
| Domain: |
Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: |
Animalia |
| Phylum: |
Arthropoda |
| Class: |
Insecta |
| Order: |
Lepidoptera |
| Family: |
Lycaenidae |
| Genus: |
Favonius |
| Species: |
F. quercus |
| Binomial name |
Favonius quercus
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| Synonyms |
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- Bithys quercus subsp. interjecta Verity, 1919
- Favonia quercus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Neozephyrus quercus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Neozephyrus quercus subsp. interjecta (Verity, 1919)
- Neozephyrus quercus subsp. quercus
- Papilio quercus Linnaeus, 1758
- Quercusia quercus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Quercusia quercus subsp. bellus (Gerhard, 1853)
- Quercusia quercus subsp. caerulea (Schwingenschuss, 1953)
- Quercusia quercus subsp. depuncta (Lempke, 1955)
- Quercusia quercus subsp. iberica (Staudinger, 1901)
- Quercusia quercus subsp. infraflavomaculata (Lempke, 1955)
- Quercusia quercus subsp. inframaculata (Lempke, 1955)
- Quercusia quercus subsp. interjecta (Verity, 1919)
- Quercusia quercus subsp. longicauda (Riley, 1921)
- Quercusia quercus subsp. quercus
- Quercusia quercus subsp. violacea (Niepelt, 1914)
- Ruralis quercus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Thecla quercus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Thecla quercus subsp. bellus Gerhard, 1853
- Zephyrus iberica Staudinger, 1901
- Zephyrus quercus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Zephyrus quercus subsp. caerulea Schwingenschuss, 1953
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The purple hairstreak (Favonius quercus) is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae distributed throughout much of Europe, North Africa, Anatolia, Caucasia, and Transcaucasia.
The larva feeds on Quercus robur, Quercus petraea, Quercus cerris and Quercus ilex.