Glaucopsyche

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.

Glaucopsyche
Imagos of Glaucopsyche alexis, upper and underside, in Spain and Romania
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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

Species[1][2]

  • 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 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
  • 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 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
  • Glaucopsyche seminigra 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

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


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