Plebejus Plebeius genus of butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. Many genera formerly considered independent are at least tentatively included here nowadays, and some others—Agriades , Albulina , Icaricia Aricia , and Lycaeides —may belong herein too. The species of this genus are found in the Palearctic and Nearctic realms.
Species include:
ardis Plebejus baroghila (Tytler, 1926) Plebejus eversmanni (Lang, 1884) Plebejus firuskuhi (Forster, 1940) Plebejus kwaja (Evans, 1932) argus Plebejus aegidon (Gerhard, 1853) Plebejus argus (Linnaeus, 1758) – silver-studded bluePlebejus corsicus (Bellier, 1862) Plebejus hypochiona (Rambur, 1858) idas Plebejus anna (Edwards, 1861) – Anna's bluePlebejus agnatus (Rühl, 1895) Plebejus argyrognomon (Bergstrasser, [1779]) – Reverdin's bluePlebejus balder (Hemming, 1934) Plebejus bellieri (Oberthür, 1910) Plebejus calliopis (Boisduval, 1832) Plebejus christophi (Staudinger, 1874) – small jewel bluePlebejus cleobis (Bremer, 1861) Plebejus emigdionis (Grinnell, 1905) – San Emigdio bbluePlebejus ganssuensis (Grum-Grshimailo, 1891) Plebejus iburiensis (Butler, [1882]) Plebejus idas (Linnaeus, 1761) – Idas blue or northern bluePlebejus lepidus Zhdanko, 2000 Plebejus melissa (Edwards, 1873) – Melissa blue or orange-bordered bluePlebejus maracandicus (Erschoff, 1874) Plebejus mongolicus Rühl, [1893] Plebejus nevadensis (Oberthür, 1910) Plebejus nushibi Zhdanko, 2000 Plebejus pseudaegon (Butler, [1882]) Plebejus roxane (Grum-Grshimailo, 1887) Plebejus samudra (Moore, [1875]) Plebejus subsolanus (Eversmann, 1851) Plebejus uiguricus Zhdanko, 2000 lucifera Plebejus lucifera (Staudinger, 1867) Plebejus thermis (Grum-Grshimailo, 1891) pylaon Plebejus allardi (Oberthür, 1874) Plebejus beani Bálint & Johnson, 1997 Plebejus hesperica (Rambur, 1840) Plebejus klausrosei (Bálint, 1992) Plebejus martini (Allard, 1867) – Martin's bluePlebejus nichollae (Elwes, 1901) Plebejus patriarcha Bálint, 1992 Plebejus philbyi Graves, 1925 Plebejus pylaon (Fischer de Waldheim, 1832) – zephyr bluePlebejus sephirus (Frivaldszky, 1835) Plebejus trappi Verity, 1927 Plebejus vogelii (Oberthür, 1920) – Vogel's bluePlebejus zephyrinus (Christoph, 1884) sarta Plebejus devanica (Moore, [1875]) Plebejus sarta (Alphéraky, 1881) Plebejus pilgram Bálint & Johnson, 1997 Plebejus sartoides (Swinhoe, 1910) eurypilus Plebejus carmon (Gerhard, [1851]) – eastern brown argusPlebejus csomai (Bálint, 1992) Plebejus iranicus (Forster, 1938) Plebejus psylorita (Freyer, 1845) – Cretan argusPlebejus zamotajlovi (Shchurov & Lukhtanov, 2001) ungrouped: Plebejus acmon (Westwood, [1851]) – Acmon bluePlebejus bergi Kusnezov, 1908 Plebejus callaghani (Carbonell & Naderi, 2007) Plebejus dzhizaki Zhdanko, 2000 Plebejus eumedon Esper, 1780 – geranium argusPlebejus hishikawai (Yoshino, 2003) Plebejus neurona (Skinner, 1902) – veined bluePlebejus nicias Meigen, 1830 – silvery argusPlebejus noah (Herz, 1900) Plebejus optilete Knoch, 1781 – cranberry bluePlebejus qinghaiensis (Murayama) Plebejus shuroabadicus Shchetkin, 1963 moved to genus Agriades Agriades cassiope (J. Emmel & T. Emmel, 1998) – heather blueAgriades glandon (de Prunner, 1798) – Arctic blueAgriades podarce – Sierra Nevada bluemoved to genus Aricia Aricia icarioides (Boisduval, 1852) – Boisduval's blueAricia lupini (Boisduval, 1869) – lupine blueAricia saepiolus (Boisduval, 1852) – greenish blueAricia shasta (Edwards, 1862) – Shasta blue
