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. ==Species == - Glaucopsyche alexis (Poda, 1761) – green-underside blue - Glaucopsyche alluaudi Oberthür, 1922 Morocco may be Glaucopsyche melanops subspecies alluaudi - Glaucopsyche argali (Elwes, 1899) - Glaucopsyche argali argali southeast Altai - Glaucopsyche argali arkhar (Lukhtanov, 1990) Altai - Glaucopsyche arizonensis McDunnough, 1936 Arizona may be Glaucopsyche lygdamus subspecies arizonensis - Glaucopsyche astraea (Freyer, 1852) Asia Minor, Kurdistan - Glaucopsyche charybdis (Staudinger, 1886) Central Asia - Glaucopsyche damaetas (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) T.L. "neighbourhood of Vienna" - Glaucopsyche exerces (Boisduval, 1852) - Glaucopsyche grumi (Forster, 1938) - Glaucopsyche iphicles (Staudinger, 1886) - Glaucopsyche kurnakovi (Kurentzov, 1970) Kamchatka - Glaucopsyche laetifica (Püngeler, 1898) Kazakhstan - Glaucopsyche lycormas (Butler, 1866) Siberia, Mongolia, China, Korea and Japan - Glaucopsyche lycormas lycormas Japan - Glaucopsyche lycormas scylla (Oberthür, 1880) Amur Oblast, Ussuri - Glaucopsyche lycormas tomariana (Matsumura, 1928) Kunashir - Glaucopsyche lygdamus (Doubleday, 1842) – silvery blue – North America - Glaucopsyche lygdamus incognita (Tilden, 1974) – Behr's blue – California - Glaucopsyche lygdamus palosverdesensis – Palos Verdes blue – California - Glaucopsyche lygdamus afra (Edwards, 1883) - Glaucopsyche lygdamus arizonensis McDunnough, 1936 Arizona - Glaucopsyche lygdamus columbia (Skinner, 1917) - Glaucopsyche lygdamus couperi Grote, 1874 - Glaucopsyche lygdamus jacki Stallings & Turner, 1947 - Glaucopsyche lygdamus maritima (Weeks, 1902) Baja California - Glaucopsyche lygdamus mildredi Chermock, 1944 - Glaucopsyche lygdamus orcus (Edwards, 1869) California - Glaucopsyche lygdamus oro Scudder, 1876 - Glaucopsyche melanops (Boisduval, 1829) – black-eyed blue - Glaucopsyche melanops algirica (Heyne, 1895) North Africa and South Spain - Glaucopsyche melanops alluaudi (Oberthür, 1922) Morocco - Glaucopsyche mertila (Edwards, 1866) - Glaucopsyche paphos Chapman, 1920 – Paphos blue (endemic to Cyprus) may be Glaucopsyche melanops subspecies paphos - Glaucopsyche pauper (Verity, 1919) - Glaucopsyche piasus (Boisduval, 1852) – arrowhead blue – western North America - Glaucopsyche piasus daunia (Edwards, 1871) - Glaucopsyche piasus nevada Brown, 1975 Nevada - Glaucopsyche piasus sagittigera (C. & R. Felder, 1865) California - Glaucopsyche piasus toxeuma Brown, 1971 - Glaucopsyche piasus umbrosa Emmel, Emmel & Mattoon, 1998 California - Glaucopsyche seminigra Howarth & Povolny, 1976 Iran and Afghanistan - Glaucopsyche seminigra seminigra - Glaucopsyche seminigra sofidensis Blom, 1979 - †Glaucopsyche xerces (Boisduval, 1852) – Xerces blue (extinct) San Francisco, United States