Cupido (butterfly)

Butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae

Cupido
Eastern tailed-blue (C. comyntas)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Genus: Cupido
Schrank, 1801
Synonyms

Binghamia Tutt, 1908
Tiora Evans, 1912
Ununcula van Eecke, 1915
Zizera Moore, 1881
Everes Hübner, 1819

Cupido is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The subgenus Everes (Hübner, [1819]) is included here.[1]

Cupido comyntas museum specimens

Species

  • Cupido alaina (Staudinger, 1887) Alai, Darvaz, West Pamirs
  • Cupido alcetas – Provençal short-tailed blue
  • Cupido amyntula – western tailed-blue
  • Cupido argiades – short-tailed blue
  • Cupido buddhista (Alphéraky, 1881) – Buddhist blue – Central Asia
  • Cupido carswelli Stempffer, 1927 – Carswell's little blue – mountains of southeast Spain
  • Cupido comyntas – eastern tailed-blue
  • Cupido decolor (Staudinger, 1886)
  • Cupido decolorata (Staudinger, 1886) – eastern short-tailed blue – Balkans and eastern Europe
  • Cupido gisela (Püngeler, 1901) – Gisela blue – Tibet
  • Cupido lacturnus – tailed Cupid
  • Cupido lorquinii (Herrich-Schäffer, [1851]) – Lorquin's blue – North Africa and Spain
  • Cupido minimus – small blue – Europe, Asia Minor, Siberia and Mongolia
  • Cupido osiris – Osiris blue – Europe, Asia Minor, Siberia and Mongolia
  • Cupido peri Zhdanko, 2000 Alai, Darvaz
  • Cupido prosecusa (Erschoff, 1874) Central Asia
  • Cupido staudingeri (Christoph, 1873) – Staudinger's blue – Asia Minor
  • Cupido tusovi Lukhtanov, 1994 Altai Mountains

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References

  1. ^ http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/old_site/uasm//Opler&Warren.pdf Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine Paul A. Opler and Andrew D. Warren. Butterflies of North America. 2. Scientific Names List for Butterfly Species of North America, north of Mexico.
  2. ^ Cupido at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
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Taxon identifiers
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