Cupido (butterfly)

Cupido
	Eastern tailed-blue (C. comyntas)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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

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

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

^ http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/old_site/uasm//Opler&Warren.pdf Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine Paul A. Opler and Andrew D. Warren. Butterflies of North America. 2. Scientific Names List for Butterfly Species of North America, north of Mexico.
^ Cupido at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera