Agriades pheretiades

Agriades pheretiades
A. p. pheres figure 5
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Polyommatinae
Genus:	Agriades
Species:	A. pheretiades
Binomial name
Agriades pheretiades (Eversmann, 1843)
Synonyms
Lycaena pheretiades Eversmann, 1843 Lycaena pheretiades var. dschagataicus Bang-Haas, 1915 Lycaena pheretiades philebus Fruhstorfer, 1915 Lycaena pheretiades pheres Staudinger, 1886 Lycaena pheretiades var. pheretulus Staudinger, 1886 Lycaena pherecydes Grum-Grshimailo, 1890 Lycaena pheretiades phereclus Grum-Grshimailo, 1890 Lycaena pheretiades var. micra Avinoff, 1910 Lycaena andarabi Forster, 1937 Lycaena orbitulus walli Evans, 1912 Lycaena pheretiades var. tekessana Alphéraky, 1897

Agriades pheretiades, the Tien Shan blue, is a Palearctic butterfly of the Lycaenidae family.^[1]

Subspecies

• A. p. pheretiades (Saur Mountains, Tarbagatai Mountains, Dzhungarsky Alatau)
• A. p. andarabi (Forster, 1937) (western Pamirs)
• A. p. danya Korb, 2013 (Uzbekistan)
• A. p. lara Zhdanko & Churkin, 2001 (Kyrgyzstan)
• A. p. micrus (Avinoff, 1910) (eastern Pamirs)
• A. p. pheres (Staudinger, 1886) (Gissar Range, Darvaz, Alay Mountains, northern and western Tian Shan)
• A. p. pheretulus (Staudinger, 1886)
• A. p. pseudomicrus Tshikolovets, 1997 (northern Pamirs)
• A. p. sveta Zhdanko & Churkin, 2001 (Kazakhstan)
• A. p. tekessanus (Alphéraky, 1897) (inner Tian Shan)
• A. p. walli (Evans, 1912) (Kashmir)

References

1. "Agriades Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms

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