Glaucopsyche

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

Lower classifications Glaucopsyche alexis, Glaucopsyche lygdamus

Silvery blue glaucopsyche lygdamus

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

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

Glaucopsyche Wikipedia

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Silvery blue glaucopsyche lygdamus

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