Agriades

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

Agriades
Arctic blue (Agriades glandon)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Genus: Agriades
Hübner, [1819]
Synonyms[1]
  • Albulina Tutt, 1909
  • Vacciniina Tutt, 1909
  • Latiorina Tutt, 1909
  • Xinjiangia Huang & Murayama, 1988
  • Himalaya Koçak & Seven, 1998
  • Mestore Koçak & Kemal, 2007

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).[1]

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

Species

Listed alphabetically within groups:[1]

The aquilo species-group:

  • Agriades diodorus (Bremer, 1861)
  • Agriades glandon (de Prunner, 1798) – Glandon blue or Arctic blue (including Agriades aquilo, Agriades cassiope, and Agriades franklinii)
  • Agriades podarce (C. & R. Felder, [1865])

The ellisi species-group:

  • Agriades ellisi (Marshall, 1882)
  • Agriades errans (Riley, 1927)
  • Agriades jaloka Moore, [1875])
  • Agriades janigena (Riley, 1923)
  • Agriades kurtjohnsoni Bálint, 1997
  • Agriades morsheadi (Evans, 1923)

The pyrenaica species-group:

  • Agriades aegagrus (Christoph, 1873)
  • Agriades dardanus (Freyer, 1845) – often included in Agriades pyrenaica
  • Agriades forsteri Sakai, 1978
  • Agriades pheretiades (Eversmann, 1843)
  • Agriades pyrenaica (Boisduval, 1840) – Gavarnie blue
  • Agriades zullichi Hemming, 1933

The sikkima species-group:

  • Agriades dis (Grum-Grshimailo, 1891)
  • Agriades luana (Evans, 1915)
  • Agriades sikkima (Harcourt-Bath, 1900)

Ungrouped:

  • Agriades kumukuleensis (Huang & Murayama, 1988)
  • Agriades walterfoster (Koçak, 1996)

The orbitulus species-group:

  • Agriades amphirroe (Oberthür, 1910)
  • Agriades arcaseia (Fruhstorfer, 1916)
  • Agriades armathea (Fruhstorfer, 1916)
  • Agriades artenita (Fruhstorfer, 1916)
  • Agriades asiatica (Elwes, 1882)
  • Agriades lehanus (Moore, 1878)
  • Agriades orbitulus (de Prunner, 1798) – alpine argus
  • Agriades orbona (Grum-Grshimailo, 1891)
  • Agriades pharis (Fawcett, 1903)
  • Agriades shahidulla (Yoshino, 2003)

The optilete species-group:

References

  1. Savela, Markku. "Agriades Hübner, [1819]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 9, 2019.


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