Agriades

Agriades is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Its species are found in temperate Asia, Europe, and North America.

Taxonomy

As a result of studies of molecular phylogenetics, Agriades has been enlarged to include some of the species that used to be placed in Albulina (see the orbitulus species-group below) and in Vacciniina (see the optilete species-group).

In some earlier classifications, these three genera used to be included in Plebejus.

Species

Listed alphabetically within groups:

The aquilo species-group:

• Agriades diodorus <small>(Bremer, 1861)</small> Mongolia, North China, South Siberia
• Agriades glandon <small>(de Prunner, 1798)</small> – Glandon blue or Arctic blue (including Agriades aquilo, Agriades cassiope, and Agriades franklinii)
• Agriades podarce <small>(C. & R. Felder, [1865])</small>

The ellisi species-group:

• Agriades ellisi <small>(Marshall, 1882)</small> Himalaya
• Agriades errans <small>(Riley, 1927)</small> Himalaya
• Agriades jaloka <small>Moore, [1875])</small> Himalaya, Baltistan, Kashmir
• Agriades janigena <small>(Riley, 1923)</small> Tibet
• Agriades kurtjohnsoni <small>Bálint, 1997</small> Himalaya
• Agriades morsheadi <small>(Evans, 1923)</small> Tibet

The pyrenaica species-group:

• Agriades aegagrus <small>(Christoph, 1873)</small> North Iran
• Agriades dardanus <small>(Freyer, 1845)</small> – often included in Agriades pyrenaica
• Agriades forsteri <small>Sakai, 1978</small> Central Asia
• Agriades pheretiades <small>(Eversmann, 1843)</small>
• Agriades pyrenaica <small>(Boisduval, 1840)</small> – Gavarnie blue
• Agriades zullichi <small>Hemming, 1933</small>

The sikkima species-group:

• Agriades dis <small>(Grum-Grshimailo, 1891)</small> Central Asia, Himalaya
• Agriades luana <small>(Evans, 1915)</small> Tibet
• Agriades sikkima <small>(Harcourt-Bath, 1900)</small> Himalaya

Ungrouped:

• Agriades kumukuleensis <small>(Huang & Murayama, 1988)</small> Afghanistan
• Agriades walterfoster <small>(Koçak, 1996)</small> China

The orbitulus species-group:

• Agriades amphirroe <small>(Oberthür, 1910)</small> Tibet
• Agriades arcaseia <small>(Fruhstorfer, 1916)</small> Sikkim, Tibet
• Agriades armathea <small>(Fruhstorfer, 1916)</small> China
• Agriades artenita <small>(Fruhstorfer, 1916)</small> China
• Agriades asiatica <small>(Elwes, 1882)</small> Central Asia, Himalaya
• Agriades lehanus <small>(Moore, 1878)</small> Himalaya, Kashmir, Tibet
• Agriades orbitulus <small>(de Prunner, 1798)</small> – alpine argus
• Agriades orbona <small>(Grum-Grshimailo, 1891)</small> China
• Agriades pharis <small>(Fawcett, 1903)</small> Himalaya, Sikkim
• Agriades shahidulla <small>(Yoshino, 2003)</small> China

The optilete species-group:

• Agriades optilete <small>(Knoch, 1781)</small> – cranberry blue

References

External links

• images representing Agriades at Consortium for the Barcode of Life