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Large copper butterfly (Lycaena dispar)
The last individual of the British race of the large copper butterfly was recorded in 1848. Extinction resulted from overcollecting and local disappearance of the food plant of its caterpillars, the great water dock, with the draining of the fens in eastern England. The Dutch race, which has become rare for similar reasons, was introduced to Wood Walton Fen, England, from the Netherlands in 1927. |
