Glaucopsyche

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Glaucopsyche
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Imagos of Glaucopsyche alexis , upper and underside, in Spain and Romania
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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

Contents

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

Source: [1] [2]

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References

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