Cupido (butterfly)

Cupido
Eastern tailed-blue (C. comyntas)
Scientific 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

External links

• Lepidoptera and some other life forms
• images representing Cupido at Consortium for the Barcode of Life