Cupido (butterfly)

Cupido
C. comyntas, Eastern Tailed-blue
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Polyommatinae
Tribe:	Polyommatini
Genus:	Cupido Schrank, 1801
Species
See text
Synonyms
Binghamia Tutt, 1908 Tiora Evans, 1912 Ununcula van Eecke, 1915 Zizera Moore, 1881 Everes Hübner, 1819

Cupido is a genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. The subgenus Everes (Hübner, [1819]) is included here.^[1]

Species^[2]

• Cupido alaina
• Cupido alcetas – Provençal Short-tailed Blue
• Cupido amyntula – Western Tailed-blue
• Cupido argiades – Short-tailed Blue
• Cupido buddhista – Buddhist Blue
• Cupido carswelli – Carswell's Little Blue
• Cupido comyntas – Eastern Tailed-blue
• Cupido decolor
• Cupido decolorata – Eastern Short-tailed Blue
• Cupido gisela – Gisela Blue
• Cupido lacturnus – Tailed Cupid
• Cupido lorquinii – Lorquin's Blue
• Cupido minimus – Small Blue
• Cupido myrrha^[3]
• Cupido osiris – Osiris Blue
• Cupido peri
• Cupido prosecusa
• Cupido staudingeri – Staudinger's Blue
• Cupido tusovi

References

1. ^ http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/old_site/uasm//Opler&Warren.pdf 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, funet.fi
3. ^ The Global Lepidoptera Names Index CUPIDO myrrha, Original:LYCAENA Herrich-Schäffer, 1851

External links

• Lepidoptera and some other life forms