Cupido (butterfly)
{{Short description|Butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae}}
{{Automatic_taxobox
| image = Eastern Tailed Blue 1.jpg
| image_caption = Eastern tailed-blue (C. comyntas)
| display_parents = 3
| taxon = Cupido
| authority = 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.http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/old_site/uasm//Opler&Warren.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923190404/http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/old_site/uasm//Opler%26Warren.pdf |date=2015-09-23 }} Paul A. Opler and Andrew D. Warren. Butterflies of North America. 2. Scientific Names List for Butterfly Species of North America, north of Mexico.
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
References
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External links
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{{Wikispecies|Cupido}}
- [http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/lycaenidae/polyommatinae/cupido/index.html Lepidoptera and some other life forms]
- [http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=22785 images representing Cupido ] at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
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Category:Butterflies of Europe
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