| Glaucopsyche | |
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| Imagos of Glaucopsyche alexis, upper and underside, in Spain and Romania | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Class: | Insecta | 
| Order: | Lepidoptera | 
| Family: | Lycaenidae | 
| Subfamily: | Polyommatinae | 
| Tribe: | Polyommatini | 
| Genus: | Glaucopsyche Scudder, 1872  | 
| Synonyms | |
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 Apelles Hemming, 1931  | |
Glaucopsyche, commonly called blues, is a Holarctic genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae, found mainly in Palearctic Asia. For other species called "blues" see subfamily Polyommatinae and genus Plebejus.
Species
- Glaucopsyche alexis (Poda, 1761) – green-underside blue
 - Glaucopsyche alluaudi Oberthür, 1922 Morocco 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 may be Glaucopsyche lygdamus subspecies arizonensis
 - Glaucopsyche astraea (Freyer, 1852) Asia Minor, Kurdistan
 - Glaucopsyche charybdis (Staudinger, 1886) Central Asia
 - 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
 - Glaucopsyche laetifica (Püngeler, 1898) Kazakhstan
 - Glaucopsyche lycormas (Butler, 1866) Siberia, Mongolia, China, Korea and Japan
- Glaucopsyche lycormas lycormas Japan
 - Glaucopsyche lycormas scylla (Oberthür, 1880) Amur Oblast, Ussuri
 - Glaucopsyche lycormas tomariana (Matsumura, 1928) Kunashir
 
 - Glaucopsyche lygdamus (Doubleday, 1842) – silvery blue – North America
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus incognita (Tilden, 1974) – Behr's blue – California
 - Glaucopsyche lygdamus palosverdesensis – Palos Verdes blue – California
 - Glaucopsyche lygdamus afra (Edwards, 1883)
 - Glaucopsyche lygdamus arizonensis McDunnough, 1936 Arizona
 - Glaucopsyche lygdamus columbia (Skinner, 1917)
 - Glaucopsyche lygdamus couperi Grote, 1874
 - Glaucopsyche lygdamus jacki Stallings & Turner, 1947
 - Glaucopsyche lygdamus maritima (Weeks, 1902) Baja California
 - 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 and South Spain
 - Glaucopsyche melanops alluaudi (Oberthür, 1922) Morocco
 
 - Glaucopsyche mertila (Edwards, 1866)
 - Glaucopsyche paphos Chapman, 1920 – Paphos blue (endemic to Cyprus) 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 Nevada
 - Glaucopsyche piasus sagittigera (C. & R. Felder, 1865) California
 - Glaucopsyche piasus toxeuma Brown, 1971
 - Glaucopsyche piasus umbrosa Emmel, Emmel & Mattoon, 1998 California
 
 - Glaucopsyche seminigra Howarth & Povolny, 1976 Iran and Afghanistan
- Glaucopsyche seminigra seminigra
 - Glaucopsyche seminigra sofidensis Blom, 1979
 
 - †Glaucopsyche xerces (Boisduval, 1852) – Xerces blue (extinct) San Francisco, United States
 
References
Wikispecies has information related to Glaucopsyche.
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- ↑ Glaucopsyche at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
 - ↑ LepIndex: synonymic list for superfamily Papilionoidea family Lycaenidae; subfamily Polyommatinae
 
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