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Cupidopsis cissus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Lycaenidae

Scientific name
  
Cupidopsis cissus

Rank
  
Subspecies

Class
  
Insecta

Genus
  
Cupidopsis

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Butterflies and moths

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Cupidopsis iobates, Euchrysops malathana, Eicochrysops hippocrates, Coeliades pisistratus, Leptosia alcesta

Cupidopsis cissus, the common meadow blue, is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. It is found in most of Africa, south of the Sahara.

The wingspan is 22–34 mm for males and 23–36 mm for females. Adults are on wing from September to April and May and sometimes in June and July in subtropical areas.

The larvae feed on the flowers of Eriosema and Vigna species.

Subspecies

  • Cupidopsis cissus cissus (Senegal: Basse Casmance and south-east, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria: south and the Cross River loop, Kenya, northern Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland, Lesotho, Madagascar, South Africa: Limpopo Province, Mpumalanga, North West Province, Gauteng, Free State Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape Province, Western Cape Province, Northern Cape Province)
  • Cupidopsis cissus extensa Libert, 2003 (Gabon, Congo, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo)

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    Cupidopsis cissus Wikipedia
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