Polyommatus icadius

Polyommatus icadius is a  butterfly found in the  East Palearctic  that belongs to the blues family.

Subspecies

 * P. i. icadius Pamirs
 * P. i. morkeleb Korb, 2000   Darvaz
 * P. i. candidus Zhdanko, 2000      Tian-Shan
 * P. i. cicero Ivonin & Kosterin, 2000    South Altai
 * P. i. fominae Stradomsky, 2005    Caucasia

Taxonomy
Formerly a subspecies of Polyommatus icarus.

Description from Seitz
In ab. icadius [of icarus] Gr.-Grsh. (80 g) which occurs particularly in Anterior Asia, the borders of the ocelli are almost of the same colour as the ground and therefore scarcely visible, being much too distinct in our figure. The hindwing, moreover, has a slightly different shape in this form, which is perhaps on the way to develop into a local race.

Biology
The larva feeds on Cicer songaricum, Cicer flexuosum