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title: "Silvery Blue"
description: "Glaucopsyche lygdamus — Insects & spiders. Glaucopsyche lygdamus, the silvery blue, is a small butterfly native to North America."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/silvery-blue
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Silvery Blue

> Glaucopsyche lygdamus — Insects & spiders. Glaucopsyche lygdamus, the silvery blue, is a small butterfly native to North America.

- Scientific name: *Glaucopsyche lygdamus*
- Category: `insects` (Insects & spiders)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 25137
- Wikidata: [Q2906463](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2906463)
- iNaturalist taxon: [56776](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/56776)

## Names

- en: Silvery Blue
- fr: Bleu argenté

## Countries with the most observations

CA (12377), US (10281), MX (30), RU (4)

## Summary

Glaucopsyche lygdamus, the silvery blue, is a small butterfly native to North America.

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

## Photo

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

Photo: ngoomie · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/221359895

## Machine access

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