Plebejus idas

Plebejus idas
Plebejus idas. Male, upperside
Plebejus idas. Female, underside
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Plebejus
Species:	P. idas
Binomial name
Plebejus idas (Linnaeus, 1761)
Synonyms
Papilio idas Linnaeus, 1761 Lycaeides idas (Linnaeus, 1761) Papilio argus Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 Papilio leodorus Esper, 1782 Plebejus acdestis (Grum-Grhsimailo, 1890) Lycaena argus armoricana Oberthür, 1910

Plebejus idas, the Idas blue or northern blue,^[1] is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It belongs to the subfamily of Polyommatinae (Babendreier, 2003).