''Cupido'' is a genus of

butterflies Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...

in the

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Lycaenidae Lycaenidae is the second-largest family (biology), family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of ...

. The

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''Everes'' (Hübner, 819 is included here. Cupido comyntas Bruce

Species

* '' Cupido alaina'' (Staudinger, 1887) Alai, Darvaz, West

Pamirs The Pamir Mountains are a range of mountains between Central Asia and South Asia. They are located at a junction with other notable mountains, namely the Tian Shan, Karakoram, Kunlun, Hindu Kush and the Himalaya mountain ranges. They are among ...

* '' Cupido alcetas'' – Provençal short-tailed blue * '' Cupido amyntula'' – western tailed-blue * '' Cupido argiades'' – short-tailed blue * '' Cupido buddhista'' (Alphéraky, 1881) – Buddhist blue –

Central Asia Central Asia is a region of Asia consisting of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The countries as a group are also colloquially referred to as the "-stans" as all have names ending with the Persian language, Pers ...

* '' Cupido carswelli'' Stempffer, 1927 – Carswell's little blue – mountains of southeast

Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...

* '' Cupido comyntas'' – eastern tailed-blue * '' Cupido decolor'' (Staudinger, 1886) * '' Cupido decolorata'' (Staudinger, 1886) – eastern short-tailed blue –

Balkans The Balkans ( , ), corresponding partially with the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains that stretch throug ...

and eastern Europe * '' Cupido gisela'' (Püngeler, 1901) – Gisela blue –

Tibet Tibet (; ''Böd''; ), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are other ethnic groups s ...

* '' Cupido lacturnus'' – tailed Cupid * '' Cupido lorquinii'' (Herrich-Schäffer, 851 – Lorquin's blue –

North Africa North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region. However, it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of t ...

and

* '' Cupido minimus'' – small blue – Europe,

Asia Minor Anatolia (), also known as Asia Minor, is a peninsula in West Asia that makes up the majority of the land area of Turkey. It is the westernmost protrusion of Asia and is geographically bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean ...

Siberia Siberia ( ; , ) is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has formed a part of the sovereign territory of Russia and its predecessor states ...

and

Mongolia Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south and southeast. It covers an area of , with a population of 3.5 million, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by po ...

* '' Cupido osiris'' – Osiris blue – Europe, Asia Minor, Siberia and Mongolia * '' Cupido peri'' Zhdanko, 2000 Alai, Darvaz * '' Cupido prosecusa'' (Erschoff, 1874)

* '' Cupido staudingeri'' (Christoph, 1873) – Staudinger's blue – Asia Minor * '' Cupido tusovi'' Lukhtanov, 1994

Altai Mountains The Altai Mountains (), also spelled Altay Mountains, are a mountain range in Central Asia, Central and East Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan converge, and where the rivers Irtysh and Ob River, Ob have their headwaters. The ...

''Cupido''
at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera

References

External links

images representing ''Cupido''
at

Consortium for the Barcode of Life The Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) was an international initiative dedicated to supporting the development of DNA barcoding as a global standard for species identification. CBOL's Secretariat Office is hosted by the National Museum of ...

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