[5] Formerly included in Satyrium fuliginosa, it is similar to the Icaricia icarioides female.

The latter species has range, flight-times and host plant overlaps.

Unlike the Icaricia icarioides female, Satyrium semiluna lacks blue scales above, white fringe on the wings, and dark cell-end bar on the forward wing.

Not present are the one to three basal black dots on the ventral hind wing that the Icaricia icarioides female usually has.

[4] These two subspecies belong to the species Satyrium semiluna: