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Glaucopsyche

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Glaucopsyche
Imagos of Glaucopsyche alexis, upper and underside, in Spain and Romania
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Genus: Glaucopsyche
Scudder, 1872
Synonyms

Apelles Hemming, 1931
Bajluana Korshunov & Ivonin, 1990
Phaedrotes Scudder, 1876

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

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References

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  1. ^ Glaucopsyche at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
  2. ^ LepIndex: synonymic list for superfamily Papilionoidea family Lycaenidae; subfamily Polyommatinae
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