Cupido (butterfly)

Cupido is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The subgenus Everes (Hübner, [1819]) is included here.[1] The genus is confined to the Palearctic.

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

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

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


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