Glaucopsyche

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.

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 * Glaucopsyche alexis (Poda, 1761) – green-underside blue
 * Glaucopsyche alluaudi Oberthür, 1922 Morocco may be Glaucopsyche melanops subspecies alluaudi
 * Glaucopsyche argali (Elwes, 1899)
 * Glaucopsyche argali argali southeast Altai
 * Glaucopsyche argali arkhar (Lukhtanov, 1990) Altai
 * Glaucopsyche arizonensis McDunnough, 1936 Arizona may be Glaucopsyche lygdamus subspecies arizonensis
 * Glaucopsyche astraea (Freyer, 1852) Asia Minor, Kurdistan
 * Glaucopsyche charybdis (Staudinger, 1886) Central Asia
 * Glaucopsyche damaetas (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) T.L. "neighbourhood of Vienna"
 * Glaucopsyche exerces (Boisduval, 1852)
 * Glaucopsyche grumi (Forster, 1938)
 * Glaucopsyche iphicles (Staudinger, 1886)
 * Glaucopsyche kurnakovi (Kurentzov, 1970) Kamchatka
 * Glaucopsyche laetifica (Püngeler, 1898) Kazakhstan
 * Glaucopsyche lycormas (Butler, 1866) Siberia, Mongolia, China, Korea and Japan
 * Glaucopsyche lycormas lycormas Japan
 * Glaucopsyche lycormas scylla (Oberthür, 1880) Amur Oblast, Ussuri
 * Glaucopsyche lycormas tomariana (Matsumura, 1928) Kunashir
 * Glaucopsyche lygdamus (Doubleday, 1842) – silvery blue – North America
 * Glaucopsyche lygdamus incognita (Tilden, 1974) – Behr's blue – California
 * Glaucopsyche lygdamus palosverdesensis – Palos Verdes blue – California
 * Glaucopsyche lygdamus afra (Edwards, 1883)
 * Glaucopsyche lygdamus arizonensis McDunnough, 1936 Arizona
 * Glaucopsyche lygdamus columbia (Skinner, 1917)
 * Glaucopsyche lygdamus couperi Grote, 1874
 * Glaucopsyche lygdamus jacki Stallings & Turner, 1947
 * Glaucopsyche lygdamus maritima (Weeks, 1902) Baja California
 * Glaucopsyche lygdamus mildredi Chermock, 1944
 * Glaucopsyche lygdamus orcus (Edwards, 1869) California
 * Glaucopsyche lygdamus oro Scudder, 1876
 * Glaucopsyche melanops (Boisduval, 1829) – black-eyed blue
 * Glaucopsyche melanops algirica (Heyne, 1895) North Africa and South Spain
 * Glaucopsyche melanops alluaudi (Oberthür, 1922) Morocco
 * Glaucopsyche mertila (Edwards, 1866)
 * Glaucopsyche paphos Chapman, 1920 – Paphos blue (endemic to Cyprus) may be Glaucopsyche melanops subspecies paphos
 * Glaucopsyche pauper (Verity, 1919)
 * Glaucopsyche piasus (Boisduval, 1852) – arrowhead blue – western North America
 * Glaucopsyche piasus daunia (Edwards, 1871)
 * Glaucopsyche piasus nevada Brown, 1975 Nevada
 * Glaucopsyche piasus sagittigera (C. & R. Felder, 1865) California
 * Glaucopsyche piasus toxeuma Brown, 1971
 * Glaucopsyche piasus umbrosa Emmel, Emmel & Mattoon, 1998 California
 * Glaucopsyche seminigra Howarth & Povolny, 1976 Iran and Afghanistan
 * Glaucopsyche seminigra seminigra
 * Glaucopsyche seminigra sofidensis Blom, 1979
 * †Glaucopsyche xerces (Boisduval, 1852) – Xerces blue (extinct) San Francisco, United States