Glaucopsyche

Glaucopsyche
Imagos of Glaucopsyche alexis , upper and underside, in Spain and Romania
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Polyommatinae
Tribe:	Polyommatini
Genus:	Glaucopsyche Scudder, 1872
Synonyms
ApellesHemming, 1931 BajluanaKorshunov & Ivonin, 1990 PhaedrotesScudder, 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

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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 arizonensisMcDunnough, 1936 Arizona
  • Glaucopsyche lygdamus columbia(Skinner, 1917)
  • Glaucopsyche lygdamus couperiGrote, 1874
  • Glaucopsyche lygdamus jackiStallings & Turner, 1947
  • Glaucopsyche lygdamus maritima(Weeks, 1902) Baja California
  • Glaucopsyche lygdamus mildrediChermock, 1944
  • Glaucopsyche lygdamus orcus(Edwards, 1869) California
  • Glaucopsyche lygdamus oroScudder, 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 nevadaBrown, 1975 Nevada
  • Glaucopsyche piasus sagittigera(C. & R. Felder, 1865) California
  • Glaucopsyche piasus toxeumaBrown, 1971
  • Glaucopsyche piasus umbrosaEmmel, Emmel & Mattoon, 1998 California
• Glaucopsyche seminigra Howarth & Povolny, 1976 Iran and Afghanistan
  • Glaucopsyche seminigra seminigra
  • Glaucopsyche seminigra sofidensisBlom, 1979
• † Glaucopsyche xerces (Boisduval, 1852) – Xerces blue (extinct) San Francisco, United States

References

1. Glaucopsyche at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
2. LepIndex: synonymic list for superfamily Papilionoidea family Lycaenidae; subfamily Polyommatinae

External links

• Images representing Glaucopsyche at Consortium for the Barcode of Life