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
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- Glaucopsyche alexis <small>(Poda, 1761)</small> â green-underside blue
- Glaucopsyche alluaudi <small>Oberthür, 1922</small> Morocco may be Glaucopsyche melanops subspecies alluaudi
- Glaucopsyche argali <small>(Elwes, 1899)</small>
- Glaucopsyche argali argali southeast Altai
- Glaucopsyche argali arkhar <small>(Lukhtanov, 1990)</small> Altai
- Glaucopsyche arizonensis <small>McDunnough, 1936</small> Arizona may be Glaucopsyche lygdamus subspecies arizonensis
- Glaucopsyche astraea <small>(Freyer, 1852)</small> Asia Minor, Kurdistan
- Glaucopsyche charybdis <small>(Staudinger, 1886)</small> Central Asia
- Glaucopsyche damaetas <small>(Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)</small> T.L. "neighbourhood of Vienna"
- Glaucopsyche exerces <small>(Boisduval, 1852)</small>
- Glaucopsyche grumi <small>(Forster, 1938)</small>
- Glaucopsyche iphicles <small>(Staudinger, 1886)</small>
- Glaucopsyche kurnakovi <small>(Kurentzov, 1970)</small> Kamchatka
- Glaucopsyche laetifica <small>(Püngeler, 1898)</small> Kazakhstan
- Glaucopsyche lycormas <small>(Butler, 1866)</small> Siberia, Mongolia, China, Korea and Japan
- Glaucopsyche lycormas lycormas Japan
- Glaucopsyche lycormas scylla <small>(Oberthür, 1880)</small> Amur Oblast, Ussuri
- Glaucopsyche lycormas tomariana <small>(Matsumura, 1928)</small> Kunashir
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus <small>(Doubleday, 1842)</small> â silvery blue â North America
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus incognita <small>(Tilden, 1974)</small> â Behr's blue â California
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus palosverdesensis â Palos Verdes blue â California
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus afra <small>(Edwards, 1883)</small>
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus arizonensis <small>McDunnough, 1936</small> Arizona
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus columbia <small>(Skinner, 1917)</small>
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus couperi <small>Grote, 1874</small>
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus jacki <small>Stallings & Turner, 1947</small>
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus maritima <small>(Weeks, 1902)</small> Baja California
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus mildredi <small>Chermock, 1944</small>
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus orcus <small>(Edwards, 1869)</small> California
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus oro <small>Scudder, 1876</small>
- Glaucopsyche melanops <small>(Boisduval, 1829)</small> â black-eyed blue
- Glaucopsyche melanops algirica <small>(Heyne, 1895)</small> North Africa and South Spain
- Glaucopsyche melanops alluaudi <small>(Oberthür, 1922)</small> Morocco
- Glaucopsyche mertila <small>(Edwards, 1866)</small>
- Glaucopsyche paphos <small>Chapman, 1920</small> â Paphos blue (endemic to Cyprus) may be Glaucopsyche melanops subspecies paphos
- Glaucopsyche pauper <small>(Verity, 1919)</small>
- Glaucopsyche piasus <small>(Boisduval, 1852)</small> â arrowhead blue â western North America
- Glaucopsyche piasus daunia <small>(Edwards, 1871)</small>
- Glaucopsyche piasus nevada <small>Brown, 1975</small> Nevada
- Glaucopsyche piasus sagittigera <small>(C. & R. Felder, 1865)</small> California
- Glaucopsyche piasus toxeuma <small>Brown, 1971</small>
- Glaucopsyche piasus umbrosa <small>Emmel, Emmel & Mattoon, 1998</small> California
- Glaucopsyche seminigra <small>Howarth & Povolny, 1976</small> Iran and Afghanistan
- Glaucopsyche seminigra seminigra
- Glaucopsyche seminigra sofidensis <small>Blom, 1979</small>
- âÂÂGlaucopsyche xerces <small>(Boisduval, 1852)</small> â Xerces blue (extinct) San Francisco, United States
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