''Aricia'' is a genus of
butterflies
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 ...
in 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 ...
. The genus was erected by
Ludwig Reichenbach
Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (8 January 1793 – 17 March 1879) was a German botanist and ornithologist. It was he who first requested Leopold Blaschka to make a set of glass marine invertebrate models for scientific education and museu ...
in 1817.
Species
Listed alphabetically within groups:
* ''agestis'' group:
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Aricia agestis
''Aricia agestis'', the brown argus, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found throughout the Palearctic realm, north to northern Jutland ( Denmark) and east to Siberia and the Tian Shan.
Subspecies
*''A. a. agestis'' southern and ...
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( enis & Schiffermüller 1775) – brown argus
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Aricia artaxerxes
The northern brown argus (''Aricia artaxerxes'') is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found throughout much of the Palearctic realm.
Subspecies
*''A. a. allous'' (Geyer, 836
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Events
By place Abbasid Caliphate
* Driven by tensions between his favoured Turkish guard and the popula ...
Alps, northern Europe
*''A. a. vandalica'' Kaaber & Høegh ...
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(Fabricius, 1793) – northern brown argus
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Aricia cramera
''Aricia cramera'', the southern brown argus, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is a butterfly of Southern Europe and North Africa and can be found from Morocco and Tunisia up to Spain and Portugal, on Mediterranean islands including Me ...
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(Eschscholtz, 1821) – southern brown argus
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Aricia montensis
''Aricia montensis'', is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in the mountains of Spain and North Africa.
The larvae feed on ''Erodium'', ''Helianthemum
''Helianthemum'' , known as rock rose, sunrose, rushrose, or fro ...
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Verity, 1928
* ''anteros'' group:
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Aricia anteros''
(Freyer, 1838) – blue argus
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Aricia bassoni''
Larsen, 1974
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Aricia crassipuncta''
(Christoph, 1893)
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Aricia morronensis''
(Ribbe, 1910) – Spanish argus
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Aricia vandarbani''
(Pfeiffer, 1937)
* ''chinensis'' group:
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Aricia chinensis
''Aricia chinensis'' is a small butterfly found in the East Palearctic (Central Asia (mountains), Mongolia, West China, Central China, Northeast China, Korea) that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.
Description from Seitz
Above like ' ...
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(Murray, 1874)
* ''nicias'' group:
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Aricia dorsumstellae''
(Graves, 1923)
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Aricia hyacinthus''
(Herrich-Schäffer, 847
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Events
By place Europe
* Danish Vikings land in the Breton March (western part of Gaul). Duke Nominoe ...
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Aricia isaurica''
(Staudinger, 1871)
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Aricia nicias
''Aricia nicias'', the silvery argus, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in the Alps, Pyrenees and from Scandinavia ranging to Siberia and the north of Mongolia.
The wingspan is 25–28 mm. The butterfly flies from May to ...
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(Meigen, 1829) – silvery argus
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Aricia teberdina''
(Sheljuzhko, 1934)
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Aricia torulensis''
Hesselbarth & Siepe, 1993
References
Butterfly genera
Taxa named by Ludwig Reichenbach
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