Glaucopsyche alexis (Poda, 1761) (= Glaucopsyche cyllarus Rottemburg, 1775) - Green-underside Blue.

Range: N Africa, Europe (except for the North), Anterior and Central Asia, the southern Siberia east to Transbaikalia, Mongolia, N China.

ssp.: alexis (Poda, 1761); range: Europe, Kazakhstan, Siberia.

A road in an oak forest on the coastal mountains being a lowered western extreme of the Great Caucasus, in the vicinity of the railway station Grushovaya Balka, Novorossiisk District, Krasnodarskii Krai Province, Russia. 29th June 1990. O. Kosterin.

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