Agriades

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia:Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Agriades
Species (19) according to Talavera et al., 2013: A. amphirrhoe – A. arcaseia – A. asiatica – A. cassiope – A. dis – A. glandon – A. jaloka – A. janigena – A. kumukuleensis – A. kurtjohnsoni – A. lehanus – A. luana – A. morsheadi – A. optilete – A. orbitulus – A. pheretiades – A. podarce – A. pyrenaicus – A. sikkima

aquilo species-group:

A. aquilo – A. cassiope – A. diodorus – A. franklinii – A. glandon – A. podarce

ellisa species-group:

A. ellisi – A. errans – A. jaloka – A. janigena – A. kurtjohnsoni – A. morsheadi – A. xiaodongi

pyrenaicus species-group:

A. aegagrus – A. dardanus – A. forsteri – A. pheretiades – A. pyrenaicus – A. zullichi

sikkima species-group:

A. dis – A. luana – A. sikkima

unknown species-group:

A. kumukuleensis – A. walterfoster

orbitulus species-group:

A. amphirrhoe – A. arcaseia – A. armathea – A. artenita – A. asiatica – A. lehanus – A. orbitulus – A. orbona – A. pharis – A. shahidulla

optilete species-group:

A. optilete
Name

Agriades Hübner, 1819

Type species: Papilio glandon Prunner, 1798
Synonyms

Albulina Tutt, 1909:154. Type species: Papilio pheretes Hübner (= orbitulus Prunner).
Latiorina Tutt, 1909:155. Type species: Papilio glandon Prunner, 1798.
Vacciniina Tutt, 1909:154. Type species: Papilio optilete Knoch, 1871.
Vaccinia Forster, 1938. Incorrect subsequent spelling of Vacciniina Tutt.
Xinjiangia Huang & Murayama, 1988. Synonymy in Talavera et al, 2012: 186–187.
Himalaya Koçak & Seven, 1998. Synonymy in Talavera et al, 2012: 186–187.
Mestore Koçak & Kemal, 2007. Synonymy in Talavera et al, 2012: 186–187.

References

Hemming, A. F., 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1-509.Reference page.
Korb, S.K. & Bolshakov, L.V. 2011. A catalogue of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoformes) of the former USSR. Second edition, reformatted and updated. Eversmannia, Supplement 2. Abstract. Reference page.
Korb S.K., 2013: A revision of the type specimens of Agriades Hübner, 1819 (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) deposited in the Museum für Naturkunde an der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, with notes on its systematics. Amurian zoological journal 5 (3): 309–313. full article: [1].Reference page.
Talavera, G., Lukhtanov, V.A., Pierce, N.E. & Vila, R., 2013. Establishing criteria for higher-level classification using molecular data: the systematics of Polyommatus blue butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Cladistics 29(2): 166–192. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00421.x Reference page.
Tutt, J.W. 1908–1909. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera Vol 10, Butterflies (3): 410pp, 53 pls. London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co. BHL Reference page.

Links

Nomenclator Zoologicus
Savela, M. Funet: Agriades.

Agriades is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Its species are found in temperate Asia, Europe, and North America.
Contents

1 Taxonomy
2 Species
3 References
4 External links

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).[1]

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

References

Savela, Markku. "Agriades Hübner, [1819]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 9, 2019.