species group: Lycaena aeolus Wyatt, 1961 West Pamirs, Afghanistan Lycaena aeolides (Churkin, 1999) Gissar Range, Central Asia Lycaena alciphron (Rottemburg, 1775) – purple-shot copper Lycaena dispar (Haworth, 1802) – large copper Lycaena splendens (Staudinger, 1881) Dzhungarsky Alatau, Tian-Shan (Central Asia) Lycaena violaceus (Staudinger, 1892) The thersamonia species group: Lycaena aditya (Moore, [1875]) West Pamirs, Afghanistan, Pakistan, North India Lycaena alaica (Grum-Grshimailo, 1888) Pamirs-Alai, Gissar Range, North east Afghanistan Lycaena alpherakyi (Grum-Grshimailo, 1888) East Pamirs, Northwest China Lycaena attila (Zhdanko, 1990) Zaalaisky Mountains (Trans-Ili Alatau) Central Asia Lycaena asabinus (Herrich-Schäffer, [1851]) Turkey, Transcaucasia, Iran, Armenia Lycaena hyrcana (Neuburger, 1903) North Iran to Central Asia Lycaena kurdistanica (Riley, 1921) Armenia, Northeast Turkey, West Iran Lycaena lampon Lederer, [1870] Kopet-Dagh, Southeast Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan Lycaena ochimus (Herrich-Schäffer, [1851]) Transcaucasia, Armenia, Caucasus Minor, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Talysh Mountains (Iran - Azerbaijan) Lycaena phoebus (Blachier, 1905) – Moroccan copper Morocco Lycaena solskyi Erschoff, 1874 Pamirs to Alay Mountains, Gissar Range, Darvaz Range, Tian-Shan, Kashmir, Samarkand Lycaena thersamon (Esper, 1784) – lesser fiery copper Lycaena thetis Klug, 1834 – fiery copper or golden copper The phoenicurusia species group: Lycaena margelanica (Staudinger, 1881) South Tajikistan to Tien-Shan, Gissar Range, Darvaz, Alay, West Pamir, Babatag, Karatau, Teriklitau, Rangontau, Zailiisky Alatau, Lake Issyk-Kul mountains The hyrcanana species group: Lycaena caspius (Lederer, 1869) Kopet-Dagh, Gissar Range, North Iran, Afghanistan Lycaena ophion Hemming, 1933 Kopet-Dagh, Gissar Range to Darvaz Tadzhikistan Lycaena pamira (Nekrutenko, 1983) Lycaena sartha (Staudinger, 1886) Gissar Range to Darvaz, Pamirs to Alay mountains, Northeast Afghanistan Lycaena sultan (Lang, 1884) West Gissar Range (Zeravshansky, Ghissarsky, Baisuntau, Fanskie) Unknown species group: Lycaena bathinia Snellen, 1899 dubious Java Lycaena clarki Dickson, 1971 – eastern sorrel copper Lycaena evansii (de Nicéville, 1902) Kashmir, Chitral Lycaena kasyapa (Moore, 1865) – green copper Lycaena orus (Stoll, [1780]) – western sorrel copper Lycaena ottomanus (Lefèbvre, 1830) Lycaena pallida Miskin, 1891 New Guinea Lycaena panava (Westwood, 1852) Lycaena pavana (Kollar, [1844]) – white-bordered copper North India Lycaena standfussi (Grum-Grshimailo, 1891) West China, Tibet Lycaena susanus (Swinhoe, 1889) Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan Lycaena tityrus Poda, 1761 – sooty copper Lycaena virgaureae (Linnaeus, 1758) – scarce copper Lycaena zariaspa (Moore, 1874) West Himalayas, Kashmir, Northwest India References External links images representing Lycaena at Consortium for the Barcode of Life Lycaeninae Lycaenidae genera Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius