| Glabroculus | |
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| Glabroculus elvira as Lycaena oberthüri Grum-Grshimailo, 1887 (4a male, 4b female) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Polyommatinae |
| Tribe: | Polyommatini |
| Genus: | Glabroculus Lvovsky, 1993 |
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Glabroculus is a Palearctic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. It contains two described species.1 The larvae of Glabroculus are associated with plants of the family Limoniaceae.1
- Glabroculus cyane (Eversmann, 1837) Urals, Turan, Tian-Shan, Ghissar, Darvaz, Pamirs-Alai, Saur, Tarbagatai, South Altai, Transbaikalia, Mongolia.
- Glabroculus elvira (Eversmann, 1854) Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan.
Classification
Glabroculus was originally described by Lvovsky in 1993 as a subgenus of Polyommatus.3 Subsequent molecular phylogenetic studies confirmed that Glabroculus does not belong within Polyommatus, and it is treated as a distinct genus. Elviria Zhdanko, 1994, listed as a synonym in the article, was also included by some authors within Polyommatus before the molecular evidence clarified its placement.3
References
References
- Pierce, Naomi (2012-01-01). "Establishing criteria for higher‐level classification using molecular data: the systematics of Polyommatus blue butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae)". Cladistics. doi:10.1111/J.1096-0031.2012.00421.X.
- Savela, Markku. "Glabroculus Lvovsky, 1993". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 5, 2019.
- "A molecular phylogeny of Polyommatus s. str. and Plebicula based on mitochondrial COI and nuclear ITS2 sequences (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)" (PDF).