Polyommatinae

Polyommatinae
Common grass blue
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
(unranked):	Rhopalocera
Superfamily:	Papilionoidea
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Polyommatinae Swainson, 1827
Tribes
Candalidini Lycaenesthini Niphandini Polyommatini and see text

Polyommatinae, the blues, are a subfamily of gossamer-winged butterflies (Lycaenidae). It was long used to assign taxa of unclear relationships, and its contents are in need of revision. Several genera might not even belong here.

Genera incertae sedis

These genera are of unclear affinities. A question mark indicates doubt as to whether a genus belongs in the Polyommatinae.

Agriades – ? (often included in Plebejus) Albulina – ? (often included in Plebejus) Athysanota Boliviella Bothrinia Caerulea Cherchiella Chilades – ? Cyclirius Eldoradina Elkalyce Facula Glabroculus

Harpendyreus – ? Itylos Lycaeides (often included in Plebejus) Madeleinea Maslowskia Micropsyche Oboronia Orachrysops – ? Oraidium Orthomiella Otnjukovia Palaeophilotes – ? Pallidula Phengaris Phlyaria

Pistoria – ? Praephilotes – ? Pseudophilotes – ? Shijimia Sinia Sinocupido – ? Subsolanoides – ? Talicada Thermoniphas Tongeia Turanana Tuxentius – ?

Doubtful Polyommatinae

The genera in this list are considered Polyommatinae by some authors, but at least some belong elsewhere:

• Lepidochrysops – Polyommatini? Lycaeninae?
• Paralycaeides – Polyommatini? Lycaeninae?
• Uranothauma – Lycaeninae?

References

• Eliot, J. N. and Kawazoe, A., 1983. Blue butterflies of the Lycaenopsis group: 1-309, 6 pls. London.
• Hirowatari, T., 1992. A generic classification of the tribe Polyommatini of the Oriental and Australian regions (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Polyommatinae). Bulletin of the University of Osaka Prefecture(B), 44(Suppl.)

Further reading

• Glassberg, Jeffrey Butterflies through Binoculars, The West (2001)
• Guppy, Crispin S. and Shepard, Jon H. Butterflies of British Columbia (2001)
• James, David G. and Nunnallee, David Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies (2011)
• Pelham, Jonathan Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada (2008)
• Pyle, Robert Michael The Butterflies of Cascadia (2002)

External links

• Butterflies and Moths of North America
• Butterflies of America