Cupido (butterfly)

Cupido
Eastern tailed-blue (C. comyntas)
Scientific classification Edit this 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]

Cupido comyntas museum specimens
  1. ^ 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.

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