Glaucopsyche
| Glaucopsyche | |
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| Glaucopsyche melanops | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Tribe: | Polyommatini |
| Genus: | Glaucopsyche Scudder, 1872 |
| Synonyms | |
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Apelles Hemming, 1931 | |
Glaucopsyche, commonly called blues, is a Nearctic genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae, found mainly in Palearctic Asia. For other species called "blues" see subfamily Polyommatinae and genus Plebejus.
Species[1][2]
- Glaucopsyche alexis (Poda, 1761) – green-underside blue
- Glaucopsyche alluaudi Oberthür, 1922 Morocco may be Glaucopsyche melanops subspecies alluaudi
- Glaucopsyche argali (Elwes, 1899) Asia Minor
- Glaucopsyche argali argali southeast Altai
- Glaucopsyche argali arkhar (Lukhtanov, 1990) Altai
- Glaucopsyche arizonensis McDunnough, 1936 Arizona may be Glaucopsyche lygdamus subspecies arizonensis
- Glaucopsyche astraea (Freyer, 1852) Asia Minor, Kurdistan
- Glaucopsyche charybdis (Staudinger, 1886) Central Asia
- Glaucopsyche damaetas (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
- Glaucopsyche exerces (Boisduval, 1852)
- Glaucopsyche grumi (Forster, 1938)
- Glaucopsyche iphicles (Staudinger, 1886)
- Glaucopsyche kurnakovi (Kurentzov, 1970) Kamchatka
- Glaucopsyche laetifica (Püngeler, 1898) Kazakhstan
- Glaucopsyche lycormas (Butler, 1866) Siberia, Mongolia, China, Korea and Japan
- Glaucopsyche lycormas lycormas Japan
- Glaucopsyche lycormas scylla (Oberthür, 1880) Amur Oblast, Ussuri
- Glaucopsyche lycormas tomariana (Matsumura, 1928) Kunashir
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus (Doubleday, 1842) – silvery blue – North America
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus incognita (Tilden, 1974) – Behr's blue – California
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus palosverdesensis – Palos Verdes blue – California
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus afra (Edwards, 1883)
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus arizonensis McDunnough, 1936 Arizona
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus columbia (Skinner, 1917)
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus couperi Grote, 1874
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus jacki Stallings & Turner, 1947
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus maritima (Weeks, 1902) Baja California
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus mildredi Chermock, 1944
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus orcus (Edwards, 1869) California
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus oro Scudder, 1876
- Glaucopsyche melanops (Boisduval, 1829) – black-eyed blue
- Glaucopsyche melanops algirica (Heyne, 1895) North Africa and South Spain
- Glaucopsyche melanops alluaudi (Oberthür, 1922) Morocco
- Glaucopsyche mertila (Edwards, 1866)
- Glaucopsyche paphos Chapman, 1920 – Paphos blue (endemic to Cyprus) may be Glaucopsyche melanops subspecies paphos
- Glaucopsyche pauper (Verity, 1919)
- Glaucopsyche piasus (Boisduval, 1852) – arrowhead blue – western North America
- Glaucopsyche piasus daunia (Edwards, 1871)
- Glaucopsyche piasus nevada Brown, 1975 Nevada
- Glaucopsyche piasus sagittigera (C. & R. Felder, 1865) California
- Glaucopsyche piasus toxeuma Brown, 1971
- Glaucopsyche piasus umbrosa Emmel, Emmel & Mattoon, 1998 California
- Glaucopsyche seminigra Howarth & Povolny, 1976 Iran and Afghanistan
- Glaucopsyche seminigra seminigra
- Glaucopsyche seminigra sofidensis Blom, 1979
- †Glaucopsyche xerces (Boisduval, 1852) – Xerces blue (extinct) San Francisco, United States
References
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- ↑ Glaucopsyche at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
- ↑ LepIndex: synonymic list for superfamily Papilionoidea family Lycaenidae; subfamily Polyommatinae
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