Glaucopsyche

Glaucopsyche melanops

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilioniformes

Main Page Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Cladus: Pterygota Cladus: Metapterygota Cladus: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Endopterygota Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Infraordo: Heteroneura Divisio: Ditrysia Sectio: Cossina Subsectio: Bombycina Superfamilia: Papilionoidea Series: Papilioniformes

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Glaucopsyche
Species: G. aeruginosa – G. alexis – G. hazeri

Name

Glaucopsyche Scudder, 1872

Type species: Polyommatus lygdamus Doubleday, 1841

Synonyms

• Phaedrotes Scudder, 1876, Bull. Buffalo Soc. nat. Sci. 3: 115. TS: Lycaena catalina Reakirt
• Apelles Hemming, 1931
• Bajluana Korshunov, 1990; (included for the time being), TS: Lycaena argali.

References

• Korb, S.K., 2012: To the systematics of blue butterflies of the genus Glaucopsyche Scudder, 1872 in the Tian-Shan mountains (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Atalanta 43: 173-180.
• Scudder, 1872, 4th Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci. (1871): 54.
• Ugelvig, L.V.; Vila, R.; Pierce, N.E.; Nash, D.R. (in press, 2011): A phylogenetic revision of the Glaucopsyche section (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), with special focus on the Phengaris–Maculinea clade. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.05.016

Vernacular names

日本語: ツバメシジミ属

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