Glaucopsyche

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Glaucopsyche

Butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae

Glaucopsyche, commonly called blues, is a Holarctic genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae, found mainly in Palearctic Asia. For other species called "blues" see subfamily Polyommatinae and genus Plebejus.

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Species

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  • Glaucopsyche alexis (Poda, 1761) – green-underside blue
  • Glaucopsyche alluaudi Oberthür, 1922 Morocco may be Glaucopsyche melanops subspecies alluaudi
  • Glaucopsyche argali (Elwes, 1899)
    • 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) T.L. "neighbourhood of Vienna"
  • 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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  1. [1]
    Glaucopsyche at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
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    LepIndex: synonymic list for superfamily Papilionoidea family Lycaenidae; subfamily Polyommatinae


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