Glaucopsyche

Glaucopsyche
Glaucopsyche melanops
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Polyommatinae
Tribe:	Polyommatini
Genus:	Glaucopsyche Scudder, 1872
Synonyms
Apelles Hemming, 1931 Bajluana Korshunov & Ivonin, 1990 Phaedrotes Scudder, 1876

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.

Species^[1][2][]

• Glaucopsyche alexis (Poda, 1761) – green-underside blue
• Oberthür, 1922 Morocco may be Glaucopsyche melanops subspecies alluaudi
• Glaucopsyche argali (Elwes, 1899)
  • Glaucopsyche argali argali southeast Altai
  • Glaucopsyche argali arkhar (Lukhtanov, 1990) Altai
• McDunnough, 1936 Arizona may be Glaucopsyche lygdamus subspecies arizonensis
• (Freyer, 1852) Asia Minor, Kurdistan
• (Staudinger, 1886) Central Asia
• (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) T.L. "neighbourhood of Vienna"
• (Boisduval, 1852)
• (Forster, 1938)
• (Staudinger, 1886)
• (Kurentzov, 1970) Kamchatka
• (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
• (Edwards, 1866)
• Glaucopsyche paphos Chapman, 1920 – Paphos blue (endemic to Cyprus) may be Glaucopsyche melanops subspecies paphos
• (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
• 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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External links[]

• Images representing Glaucopsyche at Consortium for the Barcode of Life