• Local names

• Language	Vernacular name
  English (US)	Anna's Blue
  English (US)	Northern Blue

• Plebejus (Lycaeides) anna is a member of the clade Plebejus idas:

• Species	Author
  Plebejus anikini	Yakovlev, 2012
  Plebejus germani	Yakovlev, 2012
  Plebejus (Lycaeides) agnata	(Staudinger, [1889])
  Plebejus (Lycaeides) anna	(W.H. Edwards, 1861)
  Plebejus (Lycaeides) argiva	(Staudinger, 1886)
  Plebejus (Lycaeides) argyrognomon	(Bergsträsser, [1779])
  Plebejus (Lycaeides) caspica	(Forster, 1936)
  Plebejus (Lycaeides) christophi	(Staudinger, 1874)
  Plebejus (Lycaeides) cleobis	(Bremer, 1861)
  Plebejus (Lycaeides) fridayi	Chermock, 1945
  Plebejus (Lycaeides) ganssuensis	(Grum-Grshimailo, 1891)
  Plebejus (Lycaeides) iburiensis	(Butler, [1882])
  Plebejus (Lycaeides) idas	(Linnaeus, 1761)
  Plebejus (Lycaeides) lepidus	Zhdanko, 2000
  Plebejus (Lycaeides) maracandica	(Erschoff, 1874)
  Plebejus (Lycaeides) melissa	W.H. Edwards, 1873
  Plebejus (Lycaeides) mongolicus	(Rühl, 1893)
  Plebejus (Lycaeides) nushibi	Zhdanko, 2000
  Plebejus (Lycaeides) pseudaegon	(Butler, [1882])
  Plebejus (Lycaeides) rogneda	(Grum-Grshimailo, 1890)
  Plebejus (Lycaeides) roxane	(Grum-Grshimailo, 1887)
  Plebejus (Lycaeides) samudra	(Moore, 1874)
  Plebejus (Lycaeides) subsolanus	(Eversmann, 1851)
  Plebejus (Lycaeides) uiguricus	Zhdanko, 2000
  Plebejus (Lycaeides) villai	(Jutzeler, Leigheb, Manil, Villa & Volpe, 2003)
  Plebejus (Plebejus) bellieri	(Oberthür, 1910)

• Links

• Language	Website	Authors
  	Butterflies and Moths of North America
  	Butterflies of America	A.Warren, K.Davis, M.Stangeland
  	North American Moth Photographers Group

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