Cupido (butterfly)

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Kingdom Animalia Order Lepidoptera Subfamily Polyommatinae Scientific name Cupido Rank Genus		Phylum Arthropoda Family Lycaenidae Tribe Polyommatini Higher classification Lycaenidae

Lower classifications Short‑tailed blue, Small blue, Eastern tailed‑blue, Osiris blue, Everes lacturnus

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

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 myrrha

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

References

Cupido (butterfly) Wikipedia

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