''Agriades pheretiades'', the Tien Shan blue, is a

Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

of the family

Lycaenidae Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfl ...

."''Agriades'' Hübner, [1819]"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and some other life forms''

Subspecies

*''A. p. pheretiades'' (Saur Mountains">819]"">"''Agriades'' Hübner, [1819]"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and some other life forms''

Subspecies

*''A. p. pheretiades'' (Saur Mountains, Tarbagatai Mountains, Dzhungarsky Alatau) *''A. p. andarabi'' (Forster, 1937) (western Pamirs) *''A. p. danya'' Korb, 2013 (Uzbekistan) *''A. p. lara'' Zhdanko & Churkin, 2001 (

Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan,, pronounced or the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the south, and the People's Republic of China to the east. ...

) *''A. p. micrus'' (Avinoff, 1910) (eastern Pamirs) *''A. p. pheres'' (Staudinger, 1886) (

Gissar Range Hisar Range ( tg, Қаторкӯҳи Ҳисор; uz, Hisor tizmasi, russian: Гиссарский хребет; uk, Ґаторкугі Гісор; fa, رشته‌کوه حصار; also known as Hissar, Hisor, or Gissar Range) is a mountain range ...

, Darvaz, Alay Mountains, northern and western

Tian Shan The Tian Shan,, , otk, 𐰴𐰣 𐱅𐰭𐰼𐰃, , tr, Tanrı Dağı, mn, Тэнгэр уул, , ug, تەڭرىتاغ, , , kk, Тәңіртауы / Алатау, , , ky, Теңир-Тоо / Ала-Тоо, , , uz, Tyan-Shan / Tangritog‘ ...

) *''A. p. pheretulus'' (Staudinger, 1886) *''A. p. pseudomicrus'' Tshikolovets, 1997 (northern Pamirs) *''A. p. sveta'' Zhdanko & Churkin, 2001 (

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

) *''A. p. tekessanus'' (Alphéraky, 1897) (inner Tian Shan) *''A. p. walli'' (Evans, 1912) (

Kashmir Kashmir () is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term "Kashmir" denoted only the Kashmir Valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal Range. Today, the term encompas ...

)

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