Aricia

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: Aricia
Species: (15)
A. agestis – A. anteros – A. artaxerxes – A. bassoni – A. chinensis – A. cramera – A. crassipuncta – A. hyacinthus – A. isaurica – A. montensis – A. morronensis – A. nicias – A. teberdina – A. torulensis – A. vandarbani

[see Talavera et al., 2013]
Name

Aricia Reichenbach, 1817

Type species: Papilio agestis Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775
Synonymy

Gymnomorphia Verity, 1929
Pseudoaricia Beuret, 1959: 84. TS: Polyommatus nicias Meigen, 1829.
Ultraaricia Beuret, 1959: 84. TS: Lycaena anteros Freyer, 1839.
Umpria Zhdanko, 1994.

References

Beuret, H. 1959. Zur Taxonomie einiger paläarktischer Bläulinge (Lep., Lycaenidae). Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel 9(4): 80–84. Reference page.
Lamas, G. 2004. (ed.) Checklist: Part 4A. Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea. In Heppner, J.B. (ed.) Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Vol.5A, Pt.4A. Assn. for Tropical Lepidoptera/Scientific Publishers, Gainesville. 439pp. Reference page.
Sañudo-Restrepo, C.P., Dincă, V., Talavera, G. & Vila, R. 2013. Biogeography and systematics of Aricia butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66(1): 369–379. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.10.010 Paywall. 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.

Aricia is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The genus was erected by Ludwig Reichenbach in 1817.
Species

Listed alphabetically within groups:[1]

agestis group:
Aricia agestis ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775) – brown argus
Aricia artaxerxes (Fabricius, 1793) – northern brown argus
Aricia cramera (Eschscholtz, 1821) – southern brown argus
Aricia montensis Verity, 1928
anteros group:
Aricia anteros (Freyer, 1838) – blue argus
Aricia bassoni Larsen, 1974
Aricia crassipuncta (Christoph, 1893)
Aricia morronensis (Ribbe, 1910) – Spanish argus
Aricia vandarbani (Pfeiffer, 1937)
chinensis group:
Aricia chinensis (Murray, 1874)
nicias group:
Aricia dorsumstellae (Graves, 1923)
Aricia hyacinthus (Herrich-Schäffer, [1847])
Aricia isaurica (Staudinger, 1871)
Aricia nicias (Meigen, 1829) – silvery argus
Aricia teberdina (Sheljuzhko, 1934)
Aricia torulensis Hesselbarth & Siepe, 1993

References

Savela, Markku (January 4, 2019). "Aricia Reichenbach, 1817". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved April 24, 2020.