''Glaucopsyche'', commonly called blues, is a

Holarctic The Holarctic realm is a biogeographic realm that comprises the majority of habitats found throughout the continents in the Northern Hemisphere. It corresponds to the floristic Boreal Kingdom. It includes both the Nearctic zoogeographical reg ...

genus of

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

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 butterf ...

, found mainly in Palearctic Asia. For other species called "blues" see subfamily

Polyommatinae Polyommatinae, the blues, are a diverse subfamily of gossamer-winged butterflies (family Lycaenidae). This subfamily was long used to assign taxa In biology, a taxon (back-formation from ''taxonomy''; plural taxa) is a group of one or more ...

and genus ''

Plebejus ''Plebejus'' is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Its species are found in the Palearctic and Nearctic realms. Taxonomy As a result of studies of molecular phylogenetics, numerous species that were included in ''Plebejus'' by som ...

''.

SpeciesLepIndex: synonymic list for superfamily Papilionoidea family Lycaenidae; subfamily Polyommatinae

* '' Glaucopsyche alexis'' (Poda, 1761) – green-underside blue * '' Glaucopsyche alluaudi'' Oberthür, 1922

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria t ...

may be ''Glaucopsyche melanops'' subspecies ''alluaudi'' * '' Glaucopsyche argali'' (Elwes, 1899) **''Glaucopsyche argali argali'' southeast Altai **''Glaucopsyche argali arkhar'' (Lukhtanov, 1990) Altai * '' Glaucopsyche arizonensis'' McDunnough, 1936

Arizona Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is part of the Fou ...

may be ''Glaucopsyche lygdamus'' subspecies ''arizonensis'' * '' Glaucopsyche astraea'' (Freyer, 1852)

Asia Minor Anatolia, tr, Anadolu Yarımadası), and the Anatolian plateau, also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula in Western Asia and the westernmost protrusion of the Asian continent. It constitutes the major part of modern-day Turkey. The re ...

Kurdistan Kurdistan ( ku, کوردستان ,Kurdistan ; lit. "land of the Kurds") or Greater Kurdistan is a roughly defined geo-cultural territory in Western Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population and the Kurdish culture, languages ...

* '' Glaucopsyche charybdis'' (Staudinger, 1886)

Central Asia Central Asia, also known as Middle Asia, is a subregion, region of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north. It includes t ...

* '' Glaucopsyche damaetas'' (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) T.L. "neighbourhood of Vienna" * '' Glaucopsyche exerces'' (Boisduval, 1852) * '' Glaucopsyche grumi'' (Forster, 1938) * '' Glaucopsyche iphicles'' (Staudinger, 1886) * '' Glaucopsyche kurnakovi'' (Kurentzov, 1970)

Kamchatka The Kamchatka Peninsula (russian: полуостров Камчатка, Poluostrov Kamchatka, ) is a peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of about . The Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk make up the peninsula's eastern and west ...

* '' Glaucopsyche laetifica'' (Püngeler, 1898)

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 ...

* '' Glaucopsyche lycormas'' (Butler, 1866)

Siberia Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive region, geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a ...

Mongolia Mongolia; Mongolian script: , , ; lit. "Mongol Nation" or "State of Mongolia" () is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. It covers an area of , with a population of just 3.3 million, ...

, China,

Korea Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) comprising its northern half and South Korea (Republic o ...

and Japan ** ''Glaucopsyche lycormas lycormas'' Japan ** ''Glaucopsyche lycormas scylla'' (Oberthür, 1880)

Amur Oblast Amur Oblast ( rus, Аму́рская о́бласть, r=Amurskaya oblast, p=ɐˈmurskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located on the banks of the Amur and Zeya Rivers in the Russian Far East. The administrat ...

Ussuri The Ussuri or Wusuli (russian: Уссури; ) is a river that runs through Khabarovsk and Primorsky Krais, Russia and the southeast region of Northeast China. It rises in the Sikhote-Alin mountain range, flowing north and forming part of the ...

** ''Glaucopsyche lycormas tomariana'' (Matsumura, 1928)

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* '' Glaucopsyche lygdamus'' (Doubleday, 1842) – silvery blue – North America ** ''Glaucopsyche lygdamus incognita'' (Tilden, 1974) – Behr's blue –

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** '' Glaucopsyche lygdamus palosverdesensis'' – Palos Verdes blue – California ** ''Glaucopsyche lygdamus afra'' (Edwards, 1883) ** ''Glaucopsyche lygdamus arizonensis'' McDunnough, 1936

** ''Glaucopsyche lygdamus columbia'' (Skinner, 1917) ** ''Glaucopsyche lygdamus couperi'' Grote, 1874 ** ''Glaucopsyche lygdamus jacki'' Stallings & Turner, 1947 ** ''Glaucopsyche lygdamus maritima'' (Weeks, 1902)

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** ''Glaucopsyche lygdamus mildredi'' Chermock, 1944 ** ''Glaucopsyche lygdamus orcus'' (Edwards, 1869) California ** ''Glaucopsyche lygdamus oro'' Scudder, 1876 * '' Glaucopsyche melanops'' (Boisduval, 1829) – black-eyed blue ** ''Glaucopsyche melanops algirica'' (Heyne, 1895)

North Africa North Africa, or Northern Africa is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Mauritania in ...

and South

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** ''Glaucopsyche melanops alluaudi'' (Oberthür, 1922)

* '' Glaucopsyche mertila'' (Edwards, 1866) * '' Glaucopsyche paphos'' Chapman, 1920 – Paphos blue (endemic to

Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is ge ...

) may be ''Glaucopsyche melanops'' subspecies ''paphos'' * '' Glaucopsyche pauper'' (Verity, 1919) * '' Glaucopsyche piasus'' (Boisduval, 1852) – arrowhead blue – western North America ** ''Glaucopsyche piasus daunia'' (Edwards, 1871) ** ''Glaucopsyche piasus nevada'' Brown, 1975

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** ''Glaucopsyche piasus sagittigera'' (C. & R. Felder, 1865)

** ''Glaucopsyche piasus toxeuma'' Brown, 1971 ** ''Glaucopsyche piasus umbrosa'' Emmel, Emmel & Mattoon, 1998 California * '' Glaucopsyche seminigra'' Howarth & Povolny, 1976

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

and

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

** ''Glaucopsyche seminigra seminigra'' ** ''Glaucopsyche seminigra sofidensis'' Blom, 1979 * †'' Glaucopsyche xerces'' (Boisduval, 1852) – Xerces blue ( extinct)

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

, United States

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