Glaucopsyche
Glaucopsyche | |
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Imagos of Glaucopsyche alexis, upper and underside, in Spain and Romania | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Subfamily: | Polyommatinae |
Tribe: | Polyommatini |
Genus: | Glaucopsyche Scudder, 1872 |
Synonyms | |
Apelles Hemming, 1931 |
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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