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Cupido (butterfly)

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Kingdom
  
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Scientific name
  
Cupido

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Higher classification
  
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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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