''Glaucopsyche lycormas'' is a

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 ...

. It is found in the East

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 ...

in Siberia, Mongolia, China, Korea and Japan.

Subspecies

* ''Glaucopsyche lycormas lycormas'' (South Siberia (east of Ob), Russian Far East, Sakhalin, Mongolia, Northeast China, Korea, Japan) * ''Glaucopsyche lycormas lederi'' O. Bang-Haas, 1907 (South Siberia, Kuznetsky Alatau, Salair, North Altai, East Sayan, Transbaikalia, Mongolia) * ''Glaucopsyche lycormas scylla'' (Oberthür, 1880) (Amur, Ussuri) * ''Glaucopsyche lycormas tomariana'' (Matsumura, 1928) (Kunashir, Kuriles)

References

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lycormas Butterflies described in 1866 Butterflies of Asia Taxa named by Arthur Gardiner Butler {{Lycaenidae-stub