List of butterflies of Europe (Lycaenidae)

This is a list of the Lycaenidae of Europe. It is a part of List of the butterflies of Europe.

## Subfamily Aphnaeinae

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* Tawny silverline, Cigaritis acamas (Klug, 1834)

## Subfamily Lycaeninae

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Tribe Lycaenini

* Small copper, Lycaena phlaeas (Linnaeus, 1761)
* Large copper, Lycaena dispar (Haworth, 1802)
* Violet copper Lycaena helle Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775
* Lycaena ottomanus (Lefèbvre, 1830)
* Scarce copper, Lycaena virgaureae (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Sooty copper, Lycaena tityrus (Poda, 1761)
* Iberian sooty copper, Lycaena bleusei Oberthur, 1884 [1]
* Purple-shot copper, Lycaena alciphron (Rottemburg, 1775)
* Purple-edged copper, Lycaena hippothoe (Linnaeus, 1761)
* Balkan copper, Lycaena candens (Herrich-Schäffer, [1844]) [2]
* Lesser fiery copper, Lycaena thersamon (Esper, 1784)
* Golden copper, Lycaena thetis Klug 1834

## Subfamily Polyommatinae

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Tribe Polyommatini

* Nordic blue, Agriades aquilo (Boisduval, 1832) [3]
* Bosnian blue, Agriades dardanus (Freyer, 1844) [4]
* Arctic blue, Agriades glandon (de Prunner, 1798)
* Cranberry blue, Agriades optilete (Knoch, 1781)
* Alpine argus, Agriades orbitulus (de Prunner, 1798)
* Gavarnie blue, Agriades pyrenaicus (Boisduval, 1840) [5]
* Zullich's blue, Agriades zullichi
* Brown argus, Aricia agestis (Denis & Schiffermuller 1775)
* Blue argus, Aricia anteros (Freyer, 1838)
* Northern brown argus, Aricia artaxerxes (Fabricius, 1793)
* Southern brown argus, Aricia cramera Eschscholtz, 1821
* Mountain argus, Aricia montensis Verity, 1928 [6][7]
* Spanish argus, Aricia morronensis (Ribbe, 1910)
* Silvery argus, Aricia nicias (Meigen, 1830)
* Topaz-spotted blue, Azanus jesous (Guérin-Méneville, 1847)
* Velvet-spotted blue, Azanus ubaldus (Stoll, 1782)
* Geranium bronze, Cacyreus marshalli Butler, 1898
* Holly blue, Celastrina argiolus (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Provençal short-tailed blue, Cupido alcetas (Hoffmansegg, 1804)
* Short-tailed blue, Cupido argiades (Pallas, 1771)
* Eastern short-tailed blue, Cupido decolorata (Staudinger, 1886) [8]
* Lorquin's blue, Cupido lorquinii (Herrich-Schäffer, 1847)
* Small blue, Cupido minimus (Fuessly, 1775)
* Osiris blue, Cupido osiris (Meigen, 1829)
* Carswell's little blue, Cupido carswelli Stempffer, 1927
* Mazarine blue, Cyaniris semiargus (Rottemburg, 1775)
* Geranium argus, Eumedonia eumedon (Esper 1780)
* Grass jewel, Freyeria trochylus (Freyer, 1845)
* Glabroculus cyane (Eversmann, 1837) [9][10]
* Green-underside blue, Glaucopsyche alexis (Poda, 1761)
* Black-eyed blue, Glaucopsyche melanops (Boisduval, 1828)
* Paphos blue, Glaucopsyche paphos Chapman, 1920 [11]
* Iolas blue, Iolana iolas (Ochsenheimer, 1816)
* Eastern brown argus, Kretania eurypilus (Freyer, 1851) [12][13]
* Spanish zephyr blue, Kretania hesperica (Rambur, 1840)
* Cretan argus, Kretania psylorita (Freyer, 1845) [14]
* Zephyr blue, Kretania pylaon (Fischer von Waldheim, 1832)
* Zephyr blue, Kretania sephirus (Frivaldzky, 1835) [15]
* Alpine zephyr blue, Kretania trappi (Verity, 1927)
* Long-tailed blue, Lampides boeticus (Linnaeus, 1767)
* Lang's short-tailed blue, Leptotes pirithous (Linnaeus, 1767)
* Canary blue, Leptotes webbianus (Brullé, 1839)
* Persian grass blue, Luthrodes galba (Lederer, 1855)
* Spanish chalk-hill blue, Lysandra albicans (Gerhard, 1851)
* Adonis blue, Lysandra bellargus (Rottemburg, 1775)
* Azure chalkhill blue, Lysandra caelestissima (Vérity, 1921) [16]
* Chalkhill blue, Lysandra coridon (Poda, 1761)
* False chalkhill blue, Lysandra corydonius (Herrich-Schäffer, 1852)
* Lysandra gennargenti Leigheb, 1987
* Provence chalk-hill blue, Lysandra hispana (Herrich-Schäffer, 1852)
* Lysandra nufrellensis Schurian, 1977
* Pontic blue, Neolysandra coelestina (Eversmann, 1843) [17][18][19]
* Alcon blue, Phengaris alcon (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
* Large blue, Phengaris arion (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Dusky large blue, Phengaris nausithous (Bergsträsser, 1779)
* Scarce large blue, Phengaris teleius (Bergsträsser, 1779)
* Large jewel blue, Plebejidea loewii (Zeller, 1847) [20]
* Silver-studded blue, Plebejus argus (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Reverdin's blue, Plebejus argyrognomon (Bergsträsser, 1779)
* Bellier's Blue, Plebejus bellieri (Oberthür, 1910) [21]
* Idas blue, Plebejus idas (Linnaeus, 1761)
* Anomalous blue, Polyommatus admetus (Esper, 1783)
* Amanda's blue, Polyommatus amandus (Schneider, 1792)
* Grecian anomalous blue, Polyommatus aroaniensis (Brown, 1976)
* Polyommatus celina (Austaut, 1879)
* Polyommatus damocles (Herrich-Schäffer, 1844) European Russia [22][23]
* Damon blue, Polyommatus damon (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
* Polyommatus damone (Eversmann, 1841) Ukraine, Russia [24]
* Meleager's blue, Polyommatus daphnis (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
* Furry blue, Polyommatus dolus (Hübner, 1823)
* Turquoise blue, Polyommatus dorylas (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
* Eros blue, Polyommatus eros (Ochsenheimer, 1808)
* Escher's blue, Polyommatus escheri (Hübner, 1823)
* Oberthür’s anomalous blue, Polyommatus fabressei (Oberthür, 1910) [25]
* Catalonian furry blue, Polyommatus fulgens (De Sagarra, 1925)
* Sierra Nevada blue, Polyommatus golgus (Hübner, 1813)
* Piedmont anomalous blue, Polyommatus humedasae Toso & Balletto, 1976
* Common blue, Polyommatus icarus (Rottemburg, 1775)
* Chelmos blue, Polyommatus iphigenia (Herrich-Schäffer, 1847) [26]
* Anatolian white-blue, Polyommatus menalcas (Freyer, 1837) [27]
* Higgins’s anomalous blue, Polyommatus nephohiptamenos (Brown & Coutsis, 1978) [28]
* Mother-of-pearl blue, Polyommatus nivescens Keferstein, 1851
* Kolev's anomalous blue, Polyommatus orphicus Kolev, 2005 [29]
* Ripart's anomalous blue, Polyommatus ripartii (Freyer, 1830)
* Chapman's blue, Polyommatus thersites (Cantener, 1835)
* Polyommatus timfristos Lukhtanov, Vishnevskaya & Shapoval, 2016
* Andalusian anomalous blue, Polyommatus violetae (Gómez-Bustillo, Expósito & Martínez, 1979)
* Sardinian blue, Pseudophilotes barbagiae De Prins & van der Poorten, 1982[30]
* False baton blue, Pseudophilotes abencerragus (Pierret, 1837)
* Baton blue, Pseudophilotes baton (Bergsträsser, 1779)
* Bavius blue, Pseudophilotes bavius (Eversmann, 1832)
* Panoptes blue, Pseudophilotes panoptes (Hübner, 1813)
* Eastern baton blue, Pseudophilotes vicrama (Moore, 1865)
* Chequered blue, Scolitantides orion (Pallas, 1771)
* Balkan Pierrot, Tarucus balkanica (Freyer, 1844)
* Common tiger blue, Tarucus theophrastus (Fabricius, 1793)
* Fischer's blue, Tongeia fischeri (Eversmann, 1843)
* Turanana taygetica (Rebel, 1902)
* Dark grass blue, Zizeeria karsandra (Moore, 1865)
* African grass blue, Zizeeria knysna (Trimen, 1862)

## Subfamily Theclinae

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Tribe Eumaeini

* Chapman's green hairstreak, Callophrys avis Chapman, 1909
* Sovinsky's green hairstreak, Callophrys chalybeitincta , Sovinsky, 1905 Russia [31]
* Alpine green hairstreak, Callophrys suaveola (Staudinger, 1881) Russia [32]
* Green hairstreak, Callophrys rubi (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Neolycaena rhymnus (Eversmann, 1832)
* Sloe hairstreak, Satyrium acaciae (Fabricius, 1787)
* False ilex hairstreak, Satyrium esculi (Hübner, 1804)
* Ilex hairstreak, Satyrium ilicis (Esper, 1779)
* Satyrium ledereri (Boisduval, 1848)
* Black hairstreak, Satyrium pruni (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Blue spot hairstreak, Satyrium spini (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
* White-letter hairstreak, Satyrium w-album (Knoch, 1782)

Tribe Theclini

* Purple hairstreak, Favonius quercus (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Spanish purple hairstreak, Laeosopis roboris (Esper, 1789)
* Brown hairstreak, Thecla betulae (Linnaeus, 1758)

Tribe Tomarini

* Provence hairstreak, Tomares ballus Fabricius, 1787
* Caucasian vernal copper, Tomares callimachus (Eversmann, 1848)
* Nogel's hairstreak, Tomares nogelii (Herrich-Schäffer, 1851)[33]

## References

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1. ^ IUCN Redlist Lycaena bleusei
2. ^ IUCN Redlist Lycaena candens
3. ^ IUCN Redlist Plebejus aquilo
4. ^ IUCN Redlist Plebejus dardanus
5. ^ IUCN Redlist Plebejus pyrenaicus
6. ^ Verity, R. (1928): Distinction de quelques races de l'Aricia medon Hüfn. [sic] et de l'espèce différente A. cramera Ersch. (Lep. Lycaenidae). Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 1928 (11): 179-183. Paris.
7. ^ Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle [ed]. (2003-2014): Inventaire National du Patrimoine Naturel. [1]
8. ^ Red Data Book of European Butterflies (Rhopalocera) Nature and Environment, No. 99
9. ^ Eversmann, E. (1837) Kurze Notizen ueber einige Schmetterlinge Russlands. Als Beitræge zu Treitschkes Supplementen zu betrachten. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des naturalistes de Moscou 1837 (1): 1-32. Moscou (Auguste Semen).
10. ^ Talavera, G., Lukhtanov, V.A., Pierce, N.E. & R. Vila (2013) Establishing criteria for higher-level classification using molecular data: the systematics of Polyommatus blue butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Cladistics, 29 (2): 166–192.
11. ^ IUCN Redlist Glaucopsyche paphos
12. ^ Wolfgang ten Hagen (2013) Eastern Brown Argus, Kretania eurypilus (Freyer, [1851]) und verwandte Taxa (Teil 2):Ergebnisse neuer Untersuchungen (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Nachr. entomol. Ver. Apollo, N.F. 34 (1/2): 39–50 (2013)online pdf
13. ^ Kudrna, O., Harpke, A., Lux, K., Pennerstorfer, J., Schweiger, O., Settele, J. & M. Wiemers (2011): Distribution atlas of butterflies in Europe. – 576 S.; Halle a.d. Saale (Gesellschaft für Schmetterlingsschutz e.V.)
14. ^ IUCN Redlist Plebejus psyloritus
15. ^ IUCN Redlist Plebejus sephirus
16. ^ IUCN Redlist Polyommatus caelestissima
17. ^ Hristos T. Anastassiu & John G. Coutsi Polyommatus (Neolysandra) coelestina from central Greece (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Phegea 32 (4) (1.XII.2004): 153
18. ^ Eversmann, E. (1843): Quædam lepidopterorum species novæ, in montibus Uralensibus et Altaicis habitantes, nunc descriptæ et depictæ. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 16 (3): 535-555, pl. VII-X.
19. ^ Tshikolovets, V. V. (2011): Butterflies of Europe & the Mediterranean area. 544 S.: Pardubice, Czech Republic (Tshikolovets Puplications).
20. ^ G. Khanamirian K. Aghababyan A. Danchenko (2011) Fauna of Butterflies of Meghri mountain ridge of Armenia pdf
21. ^ IUCN Redlist Plebejus bellieri
22. ^ Herrich-Schäffer, G.A.W. 1843–56. Systematische Bearbeitung der Schmetterlinge von Europa, zugleich als Text, Revision und Supplement zu Jakob Hübner's Sammlung europäischer Schmetterlinge. Regensburg, In Commission bei G. J. Manz. Vols: 1–3; Vols: 4–5; Vol. 6.
23. ^ Dantchenko, A. & Lukhtanov, V. 1993. Zur Systematik und Verbreitung der Arten der Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) damone-Gruppe Südosteuropas und Südwestsibiriens (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Atalanta 24(1/2): 75–83.
24. ^ Dantchenko, A. & Lukhtanov, V. 1993. Zur Systematik und Verbreitung der Arten der Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) damone-Gruppe Südosteuropas und Südwestsibiriens (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Atalanta 24(1/2): 75–83.
25. ^ IUCN Redlist Polyommatus fabressei
26. ^ IUCN Redlist Polyommatus iphigenia
27. ^ Tshikolovets, V. V. (2011) Butterflies of Europe & the Mediterranean area.544 S.: Pardubice, Czech Republic (Tshikolovets Puplications).
28. ^ IUCN Redlist Polyommatus nephohiptamenos
29. ^ IUCN Redlist Polyommatus orphicus
30. ^ IUCN Redlist Pseudophilotes barbagiae
31. ^ Sovinsky, V., 1905. Trois nouvelles formes de Lepidopteres du Caucase. [In Russian] Revue Russe Entomologique 5(3/4): 108-110
32. ^ Staudinger, 1881 Beitrag zur Lepidopterenfauna Central-Asiens Stettin ent. Ztg 42 (7-9): 253-300, (10-12): 393-424
33. ^ IUCN Redlist Tomares nogelii

* Higgins, L.G. & Riley, N.D. A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Britain and Europe. Collins ISBN 9780002120289
* Tshikolovets, V.V. Butterflies of Europe and Mediterranean Area. Tshikolovets, Kiev ISBN 9788090490000