Agriades

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:

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