# Agriades

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***Agriades*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of [butterflies](/source/Butterflies) in the family [Lycaenidae](/source/Lycaenidae). Its species are found in temperate Asia, Europe, and North America.

## Taxonomy

As a result of studies of [molecular phylogenetics](/source/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](/source/Plebejus)*.

## Species

Listed alphabetically within groups:[1]

The *aquilo* species-group:

- *[Agriades diodorus](/source/Agriades_diodorus)* (Bremer, 1861) Mongolia, North China, South Siberia
- *[Agriades glandon](/source/Agriades_glandon)* (de Prunner, 1798) – Glandon blue or Arctic blue (including *[Agriades aquilo](/source/Agriades_aquilo)*, *[Agriades cassiope](/source/Agriades_cassiope)*, and *[Agriades franklinii](/source/Agriades_franklinii)*)
- *[Agriades podarce](/source/Agriades_podarce)* (C. & R. Felder, [1865])

The *ellisi* species-group:

- *[Agriades ellisi](/source/Agriades_ellisi)* (Marshall, 1882) Himalaya
- *[Agriades errans](/source/Agriades_errans)* (Riley, 1927) Himalaya
- *[Agriades jaloka](/source/Agriades_jaloka)* Moore, [1875]) Himalaya, Baltistan, Kashmir
- *[Agriades janigena](/source/Agriades_janigena)* (Riley, 1923) Tibet
- *[Agriades kurtjohnsoni](/source/Agriades_kurtjohnsoni)* Bálint, 1997 Himalaya
- *[Agriades morsheadi](/source/Agriades_morsheadi)* (Evans, 1923) Tibet

The *pyrenaica* species-group:

- *[Agriades aegagrus](/source/Agriades_aegagrus)* (Christoph, 1873) North Iran
- *[Agriades dardanus](/source/Agriades_dardanus)* (Freyer, 1845) – often included in *Agriades pyrenaica*
- *[Agriades forsteri](/source/Agriades_forsteri)* Sakai, 1978 Central Asia
- *[Agriades pheretiades](/source/Agriades_pheretiades)* (Eversmann, 1843)
- *[Agriades pyrenaica](/source/Agriades_pyrenaica)* (Boisduval, 1840) – Gavarnie blue
- *[Agriades zullichi](/source/Agriades_zullichi)* Hemming, 1933

The *sikkima* species-group:

- *[Agriades dis](/source/Agriades_dis)* (Grum-Grshimailo, 1891) Central Asia, Himalaya
- *[Agriades luana](/source/Agriades_luana)* (Evans, 1915) Tibet
- *[Agriades sikkima](/source/Agriades_sikkima)* (Harcourt-Bath, 1900) Himalaya

Ungrouped:

- *[Agriades kumukuleensis](/source/Agriades_kumukuleensis)* (Huang & Murayama, 1988) Afghanistan
- *[Agriades walterfoster](/source/Agriades_walterfoster)* (Koçak, 1996) China

The *orbitulus* species-group:

- *[Agriades amphirroe](/source/Agriades_amphirroe)* (Oberthür, 1910) Tibet
- *[Agriades arcaseia](/source/Agriades_arcaseia)* (Fruhstorfer, 1916) Sikkim, Tibet
- *[Agriades armathea](/source/Agriades_armathea)* (Fruhstorfer, 1916) China
- *[Agriades artenita](/source/Agriades_artenita)* (Fruhstorfer, 1916) China
- *[Agriades asiatica](/source/Agriades_asiatica)* (Elwes, 1882) Central Asia, Himalaya
- *[Agriades lehanus](/source/Agriades_lehanus)* (Moore, 1878) Himalaya, Kashmir, Tibet
- *[Agriades orbitulus](/source/Agriades_orbitulus)* (de Prunner, 1798) – alpine argus
- *[Agriades orbona](/source/Agriades_orbona)* (Grum-Grshimailo, 1891) China
- *[Agriades pharis](/source/Agriades_pharis)* (Fawcett, 1903) Himalaya, Sikkim
- *[Agriades shahidulla](/source/Agriades_shahidulla)* (Yoshino, 2003) China

The *optilete* species-group:

- *[Agriades optilete](/source/Agriades_optilete)* (Knoch, 1781) – cranberry blue

## References

1. Savela, Markku. ["*Agriades* Hübner, \[1819\]"](https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/lycaenidae/polyommatinae/agriades/). *Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms*. Retrieved August 9, 2019.

## External links

- [images representing *Agriades*](http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=6633) at [Consortium for the Barcode of Life](/source/Consortium_for_the_Barcode_of_Life)

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