Chilades

Chilades
Jewel Blues
Chilades trochylus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Chilades
Moore, [1881]
Species

Several, see text
Synonyms

Edales Swinhoe, 1910
Freyeria Courvoisier, 1920
Lachides Nekrutenko, 1984
Luthrodes H.H.Druce, 1895

Chilades, commonly called Jewel Blues[1], is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

Species

Listed alphabetically within groups.[2] The cleotas species-group:

  • Chilades boopis (Fruhstorfer, 1897)
  • Chilades buruana (Holland, 1900)
  • Chilades cleotas (Guérin-Méneville, [1831])
  • Chilades mindora (C. & R. Felder, [1865])
  • Chilades pandava (Horsfield, [1829]) – Plains Cupid
  • Chilades peripatria Hsu, 1980

The galba species-group:

  • Chilades contracta (Butler, 1880) – Small Cupid
  • Chilades galba (Lederer, 1855) – Persian Grass Blue
  • Chilades ella (Butler, 1881)

The lajus species-group:

  • Chilades alberta (Butler, 1901)
  • Chilades eleusis (Demaison, 1888)
  • Chilades elicola (Strand, 1911)
  • Chilades lajus or Chilades laius (Stoll, [1780]) – Lime Blue
  • Chilades minuscula (Aurivillius, 1909)
  • Chilades naidina (Butler, [1886])
  • Chilades parrhasius (Fabricius, 1793) – Indian Cupid
  • Chilades putli (Kollar, [1844]) – Eastern Grass Jewel
  • Chilades sanctithomae (Sharpe, 1893)
  • Chilades serrula (Mabille, 1890)
  • Chilades trochylus (Freyer, 1845) – Grass Jewel

Incertae sedis:

  • Chilades roemii Kalis, 1933
  • Chilades saga[ Grose-Smith, 1895
  • Chilades yunnanensis Watkins, 1927

Gallery

References

  1. ^ Woodhall, Steve. Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Cape Town:Struik Publishers, 2005.
  2. ^ Chilades, funet.fi
Stub icon This Polyommatinae-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.