Aricia (genus)

Aricia
Northern brown argus (Aricia artaxerxes)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Lycaenidae
Subfamily:Polyommatinae
Tribe:Polyommatini
Genus:Aricia
Reichenbach, 1817
Synonyms
  • Gymnomorphia Verity, 1929
  • Eumedonia Forster, 1938
  • Icaricia Nabokov, 1944
  • Pseudoaricia Beuret, 1959
  • Ultraaricia Beuret, 1959
  • Umpria Zhdanko, 1994

Aricia is a genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.

Species

Listed alphabetically within groups:[1]

  • anteros group:
  • argestis group:
    • Aricia agestis ([Schiffermüller], 1775) – brown argus
    • Aricia artaxerxes (Fabricius, 1793) – northern brown argus
    • Aricia cramera (Eschscholtz, 1821) – southern brown argus
    • Aricia issekutzi (Balogh, 1956)
    • Aricia montentis Verity, 1928
  • chinensis group:
  • eumedon group:
    • Aricia annulata (Elwes, 1906)
    • ?Aricia berezowskii Grum-Grshimailo, 1902
    • Aricia astorica (Evans, 1925)
    • Aricia eumedon (Esper, 1780) – geranium argus
    • Aricia kogistana (Grum-Grshimailo, 1888)
    • Aricia lamasem (Oberthür, 1910)
    • Aricia persephatta (Alphéraky, 1881)
    • Aricia privata (Staudinger, 1895)
  • icarioides group:
    • Aricia acmon (Westwood, [1851]) – Acmon blue
    • Aricia icarioides – Boisduval's blue or common blue
    • Aricia lupinus (Boisduval) – lupine blue
    • Aricia neurona (Skinner, 1902) – orange-veined blue or veined blue
    • Aricia saepiolus (Boisduval, 1852) – greenish blue
    • Aricia shasta (Edwards, 1862) – Shasta blue
  • nicias group:
    • Aricia dorsumstellae (Graves, 1923)
    • Aricia hyacinthus (Herrich-Schäffer, [1847])
    • Aricia isaurica (Staudinger, ?1870)
    • Aricia nicias (Meigen, 1829) – silvery argus
    • Aricia teberdina (Sheljuzhko, 1934)
    • Aricia torulensis Hesselbarth & Siepe, 1993

References

  1. ↑ Aricia at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera


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