- Source: Cupido (butterfly)
Cupido is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The subgenus Everes (Hübner, [1819]) is included here.
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
References
External links
Lepidoptera and some other life forms
images representing Cupido at Consortium for the Barcode of Life