List of butterflies of Europe (Lycaenidae)

This is a list of the Lycaenidae of Europe. It is a part of List of the butterflies of Europe.

Subfamily Aphnaeinae

• Tawny silverline, Cigaritis acamas (Klug, 1834)

Subfamily Lycaeninae

Tribe Lycaenini

• Small copper, Lycaena phlaeas (Linnaeus, 1761)
• Large copper, Lycaena dispar (Haworth, 1802)
• Violet copper Lycaena helle Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775
• Lycaena ottomanus (Lefèbvre, 1830)
• Scarce copper, Lycaena virgaureae (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Sooty copper, Lycaena tityrus (Poda, 1761)
• Iberian sooty copper, Lycaena bleusei Oberthur, 1884 ^[1]
• Purple-shot copper, Lycaena alciphron (Rottemburg, 1775)
• Purple-edged copper, Lycaena hippothoe (Linnaeus, 1761)
• Balkan copper, Lycaena candens (Herrich-Schäffer, [1844]) ^[2]
• Lesser fiery copper, Lycaena thersamon (Esper, 1784)
• Golden copper, Lycaena thetis Klug 1834

Subfamily Polyommatinae

Tribe Polyommatini

• Nordic blue, Agriades aquilo (Boisduval, 1832) ^[3]
• Bosnian blue, Agriades dardanus (Freyer, 1844) ^[4]
• Arctic blue, Agriades glandon (de Prunner, 1798)
• Cranberry blue, Agriades optilete (Knoch, 1781)
• Alpine argus, Agriades orbitulus (de Prunner, 1798)
• Gavarnie blue, Agriades pyrenaicus (Boisduval, 1840) ^[5]
• Zullich's blue, Agriades zullichi
• Brown argus, Aricia agestis (Denis & Schiffermuller 1775)
• Blue argus, Aricia anteros (Freyer, 1838)
• Northern brown argus, Aricia artaxerxes (Fabricius, 1793)
• Southern brown argus, Aricia cramera Eschscholtz, 1821
• Mountain argus, Aricia montensis Verity, 1928 ^{[6] [7]}
• Spanish argus, Aricia morronensis (Ribbe, 1910)
• Silvery argus, Aricia nicias (Meigen, 1830)
• Topaz-spotted blue, Azanus jesous (Guérin-Méneville, 1847)
• Velvet-spotted blue, Azanus ubaldus (Stoll, 1782)
• Geranium bronze, Cacyreus marshalli Butler, 1898
• Holly blue, Celastrina argiolus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Provençal short-tailed blue, Cupido alcetas (Hoffmansegg, 1804)
• Short-tailed blue, Cupido argiades (Pallas, 1771)
• Eastern short-tailed blue, Cupido decolorata (Staudinger, 1886) ^[8]
• Lorquin's blue, Cupido lorquinii (Herrich-Schäffer, 1847)
• Small blue, Cupido minimus (Fuessly, 1775)
• Osiris blue, Cupido osiris (Meigen, 1829)
• Carswell's little blue, Cupido carswelli Stempffer, 1927
• Mazarine blue, Cyaniris semiargus (Rottemburg, 1775)
• Geranium argus, Eumedonia eumedon (Esper 1780)
• Grass jewel, Freyeria trochylus (Freyer, 1845)
• Glabroculus cyane (Eversmann, 1837) ^{[9] [10]}
• Green-underside blue, Glaucopsyche alexis (Poda, 1761)
• Black-eyed blue, Glaucopsyche melanops (Boisduval, 1828)
• Paphos blue, Glaucopsyche paphos Chapman, 1920 ^[11]
• Iolas blue, Iolana iolas (Ochsenheimer, 1816)
• Eastern brown argus, Kretania eurypilus (Freyer, 1851) ^{[12] [13]}
• Spanish zephyr blue, Kretania hesperica (Rambur, 1840)
• Cretan argus, Kretania psylorita (Freyer, 1845) ^[14]
• Zephyr blue, Kretania pylaon (Fischer von Waldheim, 1832)
• Zephyr blue, Kretania sephirus (Frivaldzky, 1835) ^[15]
• Alpine zephyr blue, Kretania trappi (Verity, 1927)
• Long-tailed blue, Lampides boeticus (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Lang's short-tailed blue, Leptotes pirithous (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Canary blue, Leptotes webbianus (Brullé, 1839)
• Persian grass blue, Luthrodes galba (Lederer, 1855)
• Spanish chalk-hill blue, Lysandra albicans (Gerhard, 1851)
• Adonis blue, Lysandra bellargus (Rottemburg, 1775)
• Azure chalkhill blue, Lysandra caelestissima (Vérity, 1921) ^[16]
• Chalkhill blue, Lysandra coridon (Poda, 1761)
• False chalkhill blue, Lysandra corydonius (Herrich-Schäffer, 1852)
• Lysandra gennargenti Leigheb, 1987
• Provence chalk-hill blue, Lysandra hispana (Herrich-Schäffer, 1852)
• Lysandra nufrellensis Schurian, 1977
• Pontic blue, Neolysandra coelestina (Eversmann, 1843) ^{[17] [18] [19]}
• Alcon blue, Phengaris alcon (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
• Large blue, Phengaris arion (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Dusky large blue, Phengaris nausithous (Bergsträsser, 1779)
• Scarce large blue, Phengaris teleius (Bergsträsser, 1779)
• Large jewel blue, Plebejidea loewii (Zeller, 1847) ^[20]
• Silver-studded blue, Plebejus argus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Reverdin's blue, Plebejus argyrognomon (Bergsträsser, 1779)
• Bellier's Blue, Plebejus bellieri (Oberthür, 1910) ^[21]
• Idas blue, Plebejus idas (Linnaeus, 1761)
• Anomalous blue, Polyommatus admetus (Esper, 1783)
• Amanda's blue, Polyommatus amandus (Schneider, 1792)
• Grecian anomalous blue, Polyommatus aroaniensis (Brown, 1976)
• Polyommatus celina (Austaut, 1879)
• Polyommatus damocles (Herrich-Schäffer, 1844) European Russia ^{[22] [23]}
• Damon blue, Polyommatus damon (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
• Polyommatus damone (Eversmann, 1841) Ukraine, Russia ^[24]
• Meleager's blue, Polyommatus daphnis (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
• Furry blue, Polyommatus dolus (Hübner, 1823)
• Turquoise blue, Polyommatus dorylas (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
• Eros blue, Polyommatus eros (Ochsenheimer, 1808)
• Escher's blue, Polyommatus escheri (Hübner, 1823)
• Oberthür’s anomalous blue, Polyommatus fabressei (Oberthür, 1910) ^[25]
• Catalonian furry blue, Polyommatus fulgens (De Sagarra, 1925)
• Sierra Nevada blue, Polyommatus golgus (Hübner, 1813)
• Piedmont anomalous blue, Polyommatus humedasae Toso & Balletto, 1976
• Common blue, Polyommatus icarus (Rottemburg, 1775)
• Chelmos blue, Polyommatus iphigenia (Herrich-Schäffer, 1847) ^[26]
• Anatolian white-blue, Polyommatus menalcas (Freyer, 1837) ^[27]
• Higgins’s anomalous blue, Polyommatus nephohiptamenos (Brown & Coutsis, 1978) ^[28]
• Mother-of-pearl blue, Polyommatus nivescens Keferstein, 1851
• Kolev's anomalous blue, Polyommatus orphicus Kolev, 2005 ^[29]
• Ripart's anomalous blue, Polyommatus ripartii (Freyer, 1830)
• Chapman's blue, Polyommatus thersites (Cantener, 1835)
• Polyommatus timfristos Lukhtanov, Vishnevskaya & Shapoval, 2016
• Andalusian anomalous blue, Polyommatus violetae (Gómez-Bustillo, Expósito & Martínez, 1979)
• Sardinian blue, Pseudophilotes barbagiae De Prins & van der Poorten, 1982 ^[30]
• False baton blue, Pseudophilotes abencerragus (Pierret, 1837)
• Baton blue, Pseudophilotes baton (Bergsträsser, 1779)
• Bavius blue, Pseudophilotes bavius (Eversmann, 1832)
• Panoptes blue, Pseudophilotes panoptes (Hübner, 1813)
• Eastern baton blue, Pseudophilotes vicrama (Moore, 1865)
• Chequered blue, Scolitantides orion (Pallas, 1771)
• Balkan Pierrot, Tarucus balkanica (Freyer, 1844)
• Common tiger blue, Tarucus theophrastus (Fabricius, 1793)
• Fischer's blue, Tongeia fischeri (Eversmann, 1843)
• Turanana taygetica (Rebel, 1902)
• Dark grass blue, Zizeeria karsandra (Moore, 1865)
• African grass blue, Zizeeria knysna (Trimen, 1862)

Subfamily Theclinae

Tribe Eumaeini

• Chapman's green hairstreak, Callophrys avis Chapman, 1909
• Sovinsky's green hairstreak, Callophrys chalybeitincta , Sovinsky, 1905 Russia ^[31]
• Alpine green hairstreak, Callophrys suaveola (Staudinger, 1881) Russia ^[32]
• Green hairstreak, Callophrys rubi (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Neolycaena rhymnus (Eversmann, 1832)
• Sloe hairstreak, Satyrium acaciae (Fabricius, 1787)
• False ilex hairstreak, Satyrium esculi (Hübner, 1804)
• Ilex hairstreak, Satyrium ilicis (Esper, 1779)
• Satyrium ledereri (Boisduval, 1848)
• Black hairstreak, Satyrium pruni (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Blue spot hairstreak, Satyrium spini (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
• White-letter hairstreak, Satyrium w-album (Knoch, 1782)

Tribe Theclini

• Purple hairstreak, Favonius quercus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Spanish purple hairstreak, Laeosopis roboris (Esper, 1789)
• Brown hairstreak, Thecla betulae (Linnaeus, 1758)

Tribe Tomarini

• Provence hairstreak, Tomares ballus Fabricius, 1787
• Caucasian vernal copper, Tomares callimachus (Eversmann, 1848)
• Nogel's hairstreak, Tomares nogelii (Herrich-Schäffer, 1851) ^[33]

References

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4. IUCN Redlist Plebejus dardanus
5. IUCN Redlist Plebejus pyrenaicus
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