Glaucopsyche alexis

Glaucopsyche alexis <♀,♂> Spain.

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Crustacea Superclassis: Allotriocarida Classis: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Cladus: Metapterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Endopterygota Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Glaucopsyche
Species: Glaucopsyche alexis
Subspecies: G. a. alexis – G. a. blachieri – G. a. lugens – G. a. melanoposmater

Name

Glaucopsyche alexis (Poda, 1761)

Synonymy

• Papilio alexis Poda, 1761
• Papilio cyllarus Rottemburg, 1775
• Lycaena cyllarus aeruginosa (var.) Staudinger, 1881: 285. Type locality: 'Ala Tau'. Syntypes 2♂,♀, MNHU - see Nekrutenko, 2000: 201.
• Lycaena alexis ab. ♀ casanensis Krulikovsky, 1890
• Lycaena alexis ab. ♀ caerulea Courvoisier, 1913

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.
• Nekrutenko, Y., 2000. A catalogue of the type specimens of Palaearctic Riodinidae and Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) deposited in the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Nota lepidopterologica 23 (3/4): 192–352. BHL. Reference page. 
• Staudinger, O. 1881. Beitrag zur Lepidopteren-Fauna Central-Asiens. Stettiner entomologische Zeitung 42: 253-300. BHL. Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Green-underside Blue
suomi: Virnasinisiipi
français: Azuré des cytises
日本語: ツバメシジミ
中文: 燕藍灰蝶

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