Aricia (genus)

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Kingdom Animalia Order Lepidoptera Subfamily Polyommatinae Higher classification Polyommatinae		Phylum Arthropoda Family Lycaenidae Scientific name Aricia Rank Genus

Lower classifications Aricia agestis, Northern brown argus, Mission blue butterfly, Fender's blue butterfly, Aricia cramera

Aricia is a genus of butterfly in the Lycaenidae family.

Species

Listed alphabetically within groups:

anteros group:

Aricia anteros (Freyer, 1839) – blue argus

Aricia bassoni Larsen, 1974

Aricia morronensis (Ribbe, 1910) – Spanish argus

Aricia vandarbani (Pfeiffer, 1937)

argestis group:

Aricia agestis ([Schiffermüller], 1775) – brown argus

Aricia artaxerxes (Fabricius, 1793) – northern brown or Scotch argus

Aricia cramera (Eschscholtz, 1821) – southern brown argus

Aricia issekutzi (Balogh, 1956)

Aricia montentis Verity, 1928

chinensis group:

Aricia chinensis (Murray, 1874)

eumedon group:

Aricia annulata (Elwes, 1906)

?Aricia berezowskii Grum-Grshimailo, 1902

Aricia astorica (Evans, 1925)

Aricia eumedon (Esper, 1780) – geranium argus

Aricia kogistana (Grum-Grshimailo, 1888)

Aricia lamasem (Oberthür, 1910)

Aricia persephatta (Alphéraky, 1881)

Aricia privata (Staudinger, 1895)

icarioides group:

Aricia acmon (Westwood, [1851]) – Acmon blue

Aricia icarioides – Boisduval's blue or common blue

Aricia lupinus (Boisduval) – lupine blue

Aricia neurona (Skinner, 1902) – orange-veined blue or veined blue

Aricia saepiolus (Boisduval, 1852) – greenish blue

Aricia shasta (Edwards, 1862) – Shasta blue

nicias group:

Aricia dorsumstellae (Graves, 1923)

Aricia hyacinthus (Herrich-Schäffer, [1847])

Aricia isaurica (Staudinger, ?1870)

Aricia nicias (Meigen, 1829) – silvery argus

Aricia teberdina (Sheljuzhko, 1934)

Aricia torulensis Hesselbarth & Siepe, 1993

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