Cupido (butterfly)

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

Species

• Cupido alaina <small>(Staudinger, 1887)</small> Alai, Darvaz, West Pamirs
• Cupido alcetas – Provençal short-tailed blue
• Cupido amyntula – western tailed-blue
• Cupido argiades – short-tailed blue
• Cupido buddhista <small>(Alphéraky, 1881)</small> – Buddhist blue – Central Asia
• Cupido carswelli <small>Stempffer, 1927</small> – Carswell's little blue – mountains of southeast Spain
• Cupido comyntas – eastern tailed-blue
• Cupido decolor <small>(Staudinger, 1886)</small>
• Cupido decolorata <small>(Staudinger, 1886)</small> – eastern short-tailed blue – Balkans and eastern Europe
• Cupido gisela <small>(Püngeler, 1901)</small> – Gisela blue – Tibet
• Cupido lacturnus – tailed Cupid
• Cupido lorquinii <small>(Herrich-Schäffer, [1851])</small> – 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 <small>Zhdanko, 2000</small> Alai, Darvaz
• Cupido prosecusa <small>(Erschoff, 1874)</small> Central Asia
• Cupido staudingeri <small>(Christoph, 1873)</small> – Staudinger's blue – Asia Minor
• Cupido tusovi <small>Lukhtanov, 1994</small> Altai Mountains

References

External links

• Lepidoptera and some other life forms
• images representing Cupido at Consortium for the Barcode of Life