Cupido (butterfly)

Cupido
	Eastern tailed-blue (C. comyntas)
Scientific classification
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]

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 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

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

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