Cupido (butterfly)

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

Cupido comyntas museum specimens

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

• 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

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