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Cupido (butterfly)
Encyclopedia
Cupido is a genus of butterfly
in the family
Lycaenidae
. The subgenus
Everes (Hübner, [1819]) is included here.
Butterfly
A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured...
in the family
Family
In human context, a family is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence. In most societies it is the principal institution for the socialization of children...
Lycaenidae
Lycaenidae
The Lycaenidae are the second-largest family of butterflies, with about 6000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies...
. The subgenus
Subgenus
In biology, a subgenus is a taxonomic rank directly below genus.In zoology, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between the generic name and the specific epithet: e.g. the Tiger Cowry of the Indo-Pacific, Cypraea tigris Linnaeus, which...
Everes (Hübner, [1819]) is included here.
Species
- Cupido alaina
- Cupido alcetasCupido alcetasThe Provençal Short-tailed Blue is a small butterfly that belongs to the family Lycaenidae.First described from Austria by Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg in 1804, it occurs locally in Southern and Central Europe, Turkey, the Urals, Southern Siberia and Northern Kazakhstan...
– Provençal Short-tailed Blue - Cupido amyntulaCupido amyntulaThe Western Tailed-blue is a member of the Lycaenidae family and is seen across western North America as far norther as Alaska. The upperside of the male butterfly is blue while the female has a darker brown band on the outer side of the wing. The underside is riddle with black spots, with a...
– Western Tailed-blue - Cupido argiades – Short-tailed Blue
- Cupido buddhista – Buddhist Blue
- Cupido carswelli – Carswell's Little Blue
- Cupido comyntas – Eastern Tailed-blue
- Cupido decolor
- Cupido decolorata – Eastern Short-tailed Blue
- Cupido gisela – Gisela Blue
- Cupido lacturnus – Tailed Cupid
- Cupido lorquinii – Lorquin's Blue
- Cupido minimus – Small Blue
- Cupido myrrhaCupido myrrhaCupido myrrha, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. Originally named Lycaena myrrha by Herrich-Schäffer in 1851 in the six volume 'Systematische Bearbeitung der Schmetterlinge von Europa' . This rare species has been found in Anatolia area of Turkey....
- Cupido osiris – Osiris Blue
- Cupido peri
- Cupido prosecusa
- Cupido staudingeri – Staudinger's Blue
- Cupido tusovi