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Family of small usually brilliantly colored butterflies
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lycaenidae
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Lycaenidae \Lycaenidae\ n. A natural family of small usually brilliantly colored butterflies; males have short forelegs. Syn: family Lycaenidae .
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Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae , brush-footed butterflies), with over 5,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies . They constitute about 30% of the known butterfly species. ...