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title: "Pea Blue"
description: "Lampides boeticus — Insects & spiders. Lampides boeticus, the pea blue, or long-tailed blue, is a small butterfly that belongs to the lycaenids or gossamer-winged family."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/pea-blue
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Pea Blue

> Lampides boeticus — Insects & spiders. Lampides boeticus, the pea blue, or long-tailed blue, is a small butterfly that belongs to the lycaenids or gossamer-winged family.

- Scientific name: *Lampides boeticus*
- Category: `insects` (Insects & spiders)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 27810
- Wikidata: [Q929463](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q929463)
- iNaturalist taxon: [121993](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/121993)

## Names

- en: Pea Blue
- de: Großer Wanderbläuling
- es: Canela estriada
- fr: Azuré porte-queue
- nl: Tijgerblauwtje
- pl: Modrogończyk białopręgi

## Countries with the most observations

ES (4262), IN (2888), AU (2020), HK (1938), ZA (1637), FR (1527), PT (1328), JP (1292), CN (1179), TW (1118), IT (1053), IL (515)

## Summary

Lampides boeticus, the pea blue, or long-tailed blue, is a small butterfly that belongs to the lycaenids or gossamer-winged family.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampides_boeticus

## Photo

![Pea Blue](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/pea-blue/medium.jpg)

Photo: Liubov Ilminska · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/237968134

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/pea-blue?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).