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Cupido (butterfly)

Cupido
Eastern Tailed Blue 1.jpg
Eastern tailed-blue (C. comyntas)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Genus: Cupido
Schrank, 1801
Species

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Synonyms

Binghamia Tutt, 1908
Tiora Evans, 1912
Ununcula van Eecke, 1915
Zizera Moore, 1881
Everes Hübner, 1819


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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. The genus is confined to the Palearctic.



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