Agriades Explained

Agriades is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Its species are found in temperate 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:^[1]

The aquilo species-group:

• Agriades diodorus (Bremer, 1861) Mongolia, North China, South Siberia
• 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) Himalaya
• Agriades errans (Riley, 1927) Himalaya
• Agriades jaloka Moore, [1875]) Himalaya, Baltistan, Kashmir
• Agriades janigena (Riley, 1923) Tibet
• Agriades kurtjohnsoni Bálint, 1997 Himalaya
• Agriades morsheadi (Evans, 1923) Tibet

The pyrenaica species-group:

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

The sikkima species-group:

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

Ungrouped:

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

The orbitulus species-group:

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

The optilete species-group:

• Agriades optilete (Knoch, 1781) – cranberry blue

External links

• images representing Agriades at Consortium for the Barcode of Life

Notes and References

1. Web site: Savela . Markku . Agriades Hübner, [1819] ]. Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms . August 9, 2019.