Agriades orbitulus

Agriades orbitulus
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Agriades
Species:
A. orbitulus
Binomial name
Agriades orbitulus
(Prunner, 1798)
Synonyms
  • Papilio orbitulus de Prunner, 1798
  • Albulina orbitulus
  • Plebejus orbitulus
  • Plebeius orbitulus
  • Papilio pheretes Hübner, 1805
  • Albulina pheretes

Agriades orbitulus, the alpine argus, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is a high altitude species found in the Alps (ranging from the French Alps to Slovenia and Austria), the mountains of Norway and Sweden, the Urals, the Himalayas and across central Asia.

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