Aricia (butterfly)

Aricia
Northern brown argus (Aricia artaxerxes)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Polyommatinae
Genus:	Aricia Reichenbach, 1817
Synonyms
Gymnomorphia Verity, 1929 Eumedonia Forster, 1938 Icaricia Nabokov, 1944 Pseudoaricia Beuret, 1959 Ultraaricia Beuret, 1959 Umpria Zhdanko, 1994

Aricia is a genus of butterfly in the Lycaenidae family.

Species

Listed alphabetically within groups:

• anteros group:
  • Aricia anteros (Freyer, 1839) – blue argus
  • Aricia bassoni Larsen, 1974
  • Aricia morronensis (Ribbe, 1910) – Spanish argus
  • Aricia vandarbani (Pfeiffer, 1937)
• argestis group:
  • Aricia agestis ([Schiffermüller], 1775) – brown argus
  • Aricia artaxerxes (Fabricius, 1793) – northern brown or Scotch argus
  • Aricia cramera (Eschscholtz, 1821) – southern brown argus
  • Aricia issekutzi (Balogh, 1956)
  • Aricia montentis Verity, 1928
• chinensis group:
  • Aricia chinensis (Murray, 1874)
• eumedon group:
  • Aricia annulata (Elwes, 1906)
  • ?Aricia berezowskii Grum-Grshimailo, 1902
  • Aricia astorica (Evans, 1925)
  • Aricia eumedon (Esper, 1780) – geranium argus
  • Aricia kogistana (Grum-Grshimailo, 1888)
  • Aricia lamasem (Oberthür, 1910)
  • Aricia persephatta (Alphéraky, 1881)
  • Aricia privata (Staudinger, 1895)
• icarioides group:
  • Aricia acmon (Westwood, [1851]) – Acmon blue
  • Aricia icarioides – Boisduval's blue or common blue
  • Aricia lupinus (Boisduval) – lupine blue
  • Aricia neurona (Skinner, 1902) – orange-veined blue or veined blue
  • Aricia saepiolus (Boisduval, 1852) – greenish blue
  • Aricia shasta (Edwards, 1862) – Shasta blue
• nicias group:
  • Aricia dorsumstellae (Graves, 1923)
  • Aricia hyacinthus (Herrich-Schäffer, [1847])
  • Aricia isaurica (Staudinger, ?1870)
  • Aricia nicias (Meigen, 1829) – silvery argus
  • Aricia teberdina (Sheljuzhko, 1934)
  • Aricia torulensis Hesselbarth & Siepe, 1993