Cupido is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The subgenus Everes (Hübner, [1819]) is included here.[1]
| Cupido | |
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| Eastern tailed-blue (C. comyntas) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Polyommatinae |
| Tribe: | Polyommatini |
| Genus: | Cupido Schrank, 1801 |
| Synonyms | |
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Binghamia Tutt, 1908 | |
Species
edit- 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
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Cupido at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cupido (Lycaenidae).
Wikispecies has information related to Cupido.
- Lepidoptera and some other life forms
- images representing Cupido at Consortium for the Barcode of Life