Agriades

Agriades
Arctic blue (Agriades glandon)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Polyommatinae
Tribe:	Polyommatini
Genus:	Agriades Hübner, [1819]
Synonyms
Albulina Tutt, 1909 Vacciniina Tutt, 1909 Latiorina Tutt, 1909 Xinjiangia Huang & Murayama, 1988 Himalaya Koçak & Seven, 1998 Mestore Koçak & Kemal, 2007

Agriades is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Its species are found in Asia, Europe, and North America.

Taxonomy

As a result of studies of molecular phylogenetics, Agriades has been enlarged to include some of the species that used to be placed in Albulina (see the orbitulus species-group below) and in Vacciniina (see the optilete species-group).

In some earlier classifications, these three genera used to be included in Plebejus.

Species

Listed alphabetically within groups:

The aquilo species-group:

• Agriades diodorus (Bremer, 1861)
• Agriades glandon (de Prunner, 1798) – Glandon blue or Arctic blue (including Agriades aquilo, Agriades cassiope, and Agriades franklinii)
• Agriades podarce (C. & R. Felder, [1865])

The ellisi species-group:

• Agriades ellisi (Marshall, 1882)
• Agriades errans (Riley, 1927)
• Agriades jaloka Moore, [1875])
• Agriades janigena (Riley, 1923)
• Agriades kurtjohnsoni Bálint, 1997
• Agriades morsheadi (Evans, 1923)

The pyrenaica species-group:

• Agriades aegagrus (Christoph, 1873)
• Agriades dardanus (Freyer, 1845) – often included in Agriades pyrenaica
• Agriades forsteri Sakai, 1978
• Agriades pheretiades (Eversmann, 1843)
• Agriades pyrenaica (Boisduval, 1840) – Gavarnie blue
• Agriades zullichi Hemming, 1933

The sikkima species-group:

• Agriades dis (Grum-Grshimailo, 1891)
• Agriades luana (Evans, 1915)
• Agriades sikkima (Harcourt-Bath, 1900)

Ungrouped:

• Agriades kumukuleensis (Huang & Murayama, 1988)
• Agriades walterfoster (Koçak, 1996)

The orbitulus species-group:

• Agriades amphirroe (Oberthür, 1910)
• Agriades arcaseia (Fruhstorfer, 1916)
• Agriades armathea (Fruhstorfer, 1916)
• Agriades artenita (Fruhstorfer, 1916)
• Agriades asiatica (Elwes, 1882)
• Agriades lehanus (Moore, 1878)
• Agriades orbitulus (de Prunner, 1798) – alpine argus
• Agriades orbona (Grum-Grshimailo, 1891)
• Agriades pharis (Fawcett, 1903)
• Agriades shahidulla (Yoshino, 2003)

The optilete species-group:

• Agriades optilete (Knoch, 1781) – cranberry blue

External links

• images representing Agriades at Consortium for the Barcode of Life