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Butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae
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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Glaucopsyche alexis (Poda, 1761) – green-underside blue
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Glaucopsyche alluaudi Oberthür, 1922
Morocco may be Glaucopsyche melanops subspecies alluaudi
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Glaucopsyche argali (Elwes, 1899)
- Glaucopsyche argali argali southeast
Altai
- Glaucopsyche argali arkhar (Lukhtanov, 1990) Altai
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Glaucopsyche arizonensis McDunnough, 1936
Arizona may be Glaucopsyche lygdamus subspecies arizonensis
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Glaucopsyche astraea (Freyer, 1852)
Asia Minor,
Kurdistan
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Glaucopsyche charybdis (Staudinger, 1886)
Central Asia
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Glaucopsyche damaetas (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) T.L. "neighbourhood of Vienna"
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Glaucopsyche exerces (Boisduval, 1852)
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Glaucopsyche grumi (Forster, 1938)
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Glaucopsyche iphicles (Staudinger, 1886)
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Glaucopsyche kurnakovi (Kurentzov, 1970)
Kamchatka
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Glaucopsyche laetifica (Püngeler, 1898)
Kazakhstan
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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
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Glaucopsyche lygdamus (Doubleday, 1842) – silvery blue – North America
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus incognita (Tilden, 1974) – Behr's blue –
California
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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
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Glaucopsyche melanops (Boisduval, 1829) – black-eyed blue
- Glaucopsyche melanops algirica (Heyne, 1895)
North Africa and South
Spain
- Glaucopsyche melanops alluaudi (Oberthür, 1922)
Morocco
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Glaucopsyche mertila (Edwards, 1866)
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Glaucopsyche paphos Chapman, 1920 – Paphos blue (endemic to
Cyprus) may be Glaucopsyche melanops subspecies paphos
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Glaucopsyche pauper (Verity, 1919)
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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
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Glaucopsyche seminigra Howarth & Povolny, 1976
Iran and
Afghanistan
- Glaucopsyche seminigra seminigra
- Glaucopsyche seminigra sofidensis Blom, 1979
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Glaucopsyche xerces (Boisduval, 1852) – Xerces blue (
extinct)
San Francisco, United States
References
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^
Glaucopsyche at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
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^ LepIndex: synonymic list for superfamily Papilionoidea family Lycaenidae; subfamily Polyommatinae
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