Cupido (butterfly)
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| C. comyntas, Eastern Tailed-blue | |
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| Genus: | Cupido Schrank, 1801
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Cupido is a genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. The subgenus Everes (Hübner, [1819]) is included here.[1] The genus is confined to the Palearctic.
Species[2]
- 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 East 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[3]
- 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
- ^ http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/old_site/uasm//Opler&Warren.pdf Paul A. Opler and Andrew D. Warren. Butterflies of North America. 2. Scientific Names List for Butterfly Species of North America, north of Mexico.
- ^ Cupido, funet.fi
- ^ The Global Lepidoptera Names Index CUPIDO myrrha, Original:LYCAENA Herrich-Schäffer, 1851
External links
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