» The gossamer-winged butterfly genus Apelles's nowadays included in Glaucopsyche. Apelles (Ἀπελλῆς) of Kos (flourished 4th century BC) was a renowned painter of ancient Greece. Pliny the Elder, to whom we owe much of our knowledge of this artist (Naturalis Historia 35.36.79-97 and passim) rated him superior to preceding and subsequent artists. He dated Apelles to the 112th Olympiad (332-329 BC), possibly because he'd produced a portrait of Alexander the Gre… (More on Apelles)