BC Conservation Data Centre: Species Summary
Lycaena mariposa charlottensis
Mariposa Copper, charlottensis subspecies
| Scientific Name: | Lycaena mariposa charlottensis (Holland, 1930) | ||||||||||
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| English Name: | Mariposa Copper, charlottensis subspecies | ||||||||||
| English Name Synonyms: |
Queen Charlotte's Copper
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| Scientific Name - Concept Reference: | Pelham, J. P. 2008. A catalogue of the butterflies of the United States and Canada with a complete bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature. The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera. Volume 40. 658 pp. Revised 14 February, 2012. | ||||||||||
| Classification Level: | Subspecies | ||||||||||
| Species Group: | Invertebrate Animal | ||||||||||
| Species Code: | LE-LYCMAR-CH | ||||||||||
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| Conservation Status / Legal Designation | |||||||||||
| Global Status: | G5T5 (Feb 2016) | ||||||||||
| Provincial Status: | S5 (Feb 2023) | ||||||||||
| BC List: | Yellow | ||||||||||
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Nonmigrant: Local Migrant: Distant Migrant: Within Borders Migrant: |
N / N / N / na / |
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| Provincial Phenology: (1st half of month/ 2nd half of month) |
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| Colonial Breeder: | N | ||||||||||
| Length(cm)/width(cm)/Weight(g): | / / | ||||||||||
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| Endemic: | N | ||||||||||
| Global Range Comment: | This subspecies is narrowly endemic to coastal bogs at low elevations along the British Columbia, Canada, and southern Alaska, USA, coastline. The type locality is the Queen Charlotte Islands (= Haida Gwai) along the central British Columbia coast, and the distribution extends from the west coast of Vancouver Island north through southern Alaska to the Kluane valley of southwestern Yukon (Pyle and Hammond 2018). | ||||||||||
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| Last Updated: | May 15, 2001 | ||||||||||
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| References and Related Literature | |||||||||||
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Suggested Citation:
B.C. Conservation Data Centre. 2001. Species Summary: Lycaena mariposa charlottensis. B.C. Minist. of Environment. Available: https://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/eswp/ (accessed Jun 7, 2026).