Synonymy

• Lycaena ripartii Freyer, 1830: 128, pl. 133, f. 3.
• Agrodiaetus ripartii ripartii (Freyer)
• Polyommatus ripartii ripartii (Freyer)
• Polyommatus rippertii Boisduval, 1832: 1(7-8): 68, pl. 16, f. 4-6. Type locality: France, “aux environs de Digne”. Synonymy in Vila et al., 2010: 151.
• Agrodiaetus ripartii rippertii (Boisduval)
• Hirsutina admetus r. exuberans Verity, 1926: 121. Type locality: Italy, Piemonte, Oulx. Synonymy in Vila et al., 2010: 151.
• Agrodiaetus exuberans (Verity)
• Polyommatus exuberans (Verity)
• Agrodiaetus admetus agenjoi Forster, 1965: 198 [preocc. Polyommatus escheri agenjoi Higgins, 1948]. Type locality: Spain, Barcelona, Taradell. Holotype: MNCN. Synonymy in Vila et al., 2010: 151.
• Agrodiaetus agenjoi Forster
• Agrodiaetus ripartii agenjoi Forster
• Polyommatus agenjoi (Forster)
• Polyommatus ripartii agenjoi (Forster)
• Plebejus rippartii montañesa Gómez-Bustillo, 1971: 8. Type locality: Spain, “T. M. de Valdeprado, Prov. de Santander”. Synonymy in Vila et al., 2010: 151.
• Plebejus (Agrodiaetus) ripartii mozuelica Agenjo, [1973]: 31. Type locality: Spain, “Mozuelos, a 840 m., provincia de Burgos”. Synonymy in Vila et al., 2010: 151.
• Agrodiaetus ripartii mozuelica (Agenjo)
• Polyommatus ripartii mozuelicus (Agenjo)
• Agrodiaetus galloi Balletto & Toso, 1979: 14. Type locality: Massif of moudt Pollino, Lucania, southern Italy, loc. Piano di Ruggio, 1550 m. Holotype: MSNG. male ♂. 21.VII.1977. leg. E. Balletto & G.G. Toso. Synonymy in Vila et al., 2010: 146.
• Polyommatus galloi (Balletto & Toso)
• Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) budashkini Kolev & de Prins, 1995: 121. Type locality: Crimea, Sudak. Holotype: VLCA. male ♂, 3.VII.1990. leg. J. Budashkin. Synonymy in Vila et al., 2010: 151.
• Agrodiaetus budashkini (Kolev & de Prins)
• Agrodiaetus ripartii budashkini (Kolev & de Prins)
• Polyommatus budashkini Kolev & de Prins
• Polyommatus ripartii budashkini Kolev & de Prins
• Polyommatus (s.str. (Agrodiaetus (Admetusia))) ripartii ssp. ramonagenjo Koçak & Kemal, 2001: 9 [nomen novum pro Agrodiaetus admetus agenjoi Forster, 1965]. Synonymy in Vila et al., 2010: 151.
• Agrodiaetus ripartii sarkani Lukhtanov & Dantchenko, 2002: 88. Type locality: Kazakhstan, Taldy-Kurganskaya oblast, Dzhungarian Alatau, Andreevskij raion (Kabanbai), Kolbai vic., 800 m. Holotype: MCZH, male, 5.VII.2000, leg. V. Lukhtanov. Synonymy in Vila et al., 2010: 151.
• Polyommatus ripartii sarkani (Lukhtanov & Dantchenko)
• Agrodiaetus ripartii susae Bertaccini, 2003. Type locality: Italy, “Alpi Cozie, Valle di Susa, pendici del Monte Rocciamelone (TO), loc. Mompantero, m 1100 circa”. Synonymy in Vila et al., 2010: 151.

Primary references

• Agenjo, R. 1971 [1973]. Nuevas subespecies de ropalóceros ibéricos. Graellsia 26: 25–36. Reference page. 

• Balletto, E. & Toso, G.G. 1979. On a new species of Agrodiaetus (Lycaenidae) from Southern Italy. Nota Lepidopterologica 2(1/2): 13–25. Online. Reference page. 

• Bertaccini, E. 2003. [First record of Agrodiaetus ripartii (Freyer, 1831) from Piedmont and description of A. ripartii susae n.ssp. (Insecta Lepidoptera Lycaenidae)]. Quaderno di Studi e Notizie di Storia Naturale della Romagna 17 suppl.: 127–138. [in Italian]. PDF. Reference page. 

• Boisduval, J.B. 1832–1834. Icones historiques des Lépidoptères nouveaux ou peu connus. Collection, avec figures coloriées, des Papillons d'Europe nouvellement découverts; ouvrage formant le complément de tous les Auteurs iconographes. 1: Rhopalocères. Paris, Roret. 1: 1–251, pls 1–47. web Reference page. 

• Forster, W. 1965. Agrodiaetus admetus agenjoi ssp. nov. Entomologische Zeitschrift 75(18): 198–199. Reference page. 
• Freyer, C.F. 1830. Beiträge zur Geschichte europäischer Schmetterlinge mit Abbildungen nach der Natur. 3(17-24): 168pp, pl. 97-144.

• Gómez-Bustillo, M.R. 1971. Por un mejor conocimiento de los lepidópteros españoles. Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales Aranzadi 19. 45 pp. Reference page. 

• Koçak, A.Ö. & Kemal, M. 2001. [A study on the biodiversity zoogeography and taxonomy of the Section Agrodiaetus in the genus Polyommatus Latr. (Lycaenidae, Lepidoptera)] Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara, Miscellaneous Papers 78/79: 1–11. [In Turkish.] Full article. Reference page. 

• Kolev, Z. & De Prins, W. 1995. A new species of the "brown Agrodiaetus" complex from the Crimea (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Phegea 23(2): 119–132. full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• Lukhtanov, V.A. & Dantchenko, A.V. 2002. Descriptions of new taxa of the genus Agrodiaetus Hübner, [1822] based on karyotype investigation (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Atalanta 33(1/2): 81–107. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• Verity, R. 1926. Zygaenae, Grypocera and Rhopalocera of the Cottian Alps compared with other races. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation 38: 120–126. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Häuser, C.L. & Eckweiler, W. 1997. A catalogue of the species-group taxa in Agrodiaetus Hübner, 1822, a subgenus of Polyommatus Latreille, 1804 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo Suppl. 16: 53–112. PDF. Reference page. 

• Vila, R., Lukhtanov, V.A., Talavera, G., Gil-T., F. & Pierce, N.E., 2010. How common are dot-like distributions? Taxonomical oversplitting in western European Agrodiaetus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) revealed by chromosomal and molecular markers. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 101(1): 130–154. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01481.x Reference page. 

• Dincă, V., Runquist, M., Nilsson, M. & Vila, R. 2013. Dispersal, fragmentation, and isolation shape the phylogeography of the European lineages of Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) ripartii (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 109(4): 817–829. DOI: 10.1111/bij.12096 . Reference page. 

• Vishnevskaya, M.S., Saifitdinova, A.F. & Lukhtanov, V.A. 2016. Karyosystematics and molecular taxonomy of the anomalous blue butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from the Balkan Peninsula. Comparative Cytogenetics 10(5): 1–85. DOI: 10.3897/CompCytogen.v10i5.10944 . Reference page.