Cupido lacturnus
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Species of butterfly
Indian Cupid | |
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In Sri Lanka | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Cupido |
Species: | C. lacturnus |
Binomial name | |
Cupido lacturnus (Godart, [1824]) |
Cupido lacturnus, the Indian Cupid,[1] is a small butterfly found in the Australasian and Indomalayan realms that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.[1]
Description
Harry Tytler described C. l. assamica on 1915 as:
Male. Upperside: Compared to Chilades parrhasius, black border much broader on both wings. Female. Upperside: the discal greyish-blue patch on forewing much reduced, darker and hardly visible; hindwing rather darker. Underside: similar.
— Harry Tytler[2]
- Upper side (male)
- Upper side (female)
- Under side (male)
- Under side (female)
- Mating pair
Subspecies
The subspecies of Cupido lacturnus are:[3][1]
- Cupido lacturnus syntala Cantlie, 1963 – Gujarat southwards to Andhra Pradesh and Kerala.
- Cupido lacturnus assamica Tytler, 1915 – Himachal Pradesh to N.E. India; Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
- Cupido lacturnus pila Evans, 1925 – Andamans & Nicobars Is. (All Nicobars).
References
- ^ a b c R.K., Varshney; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. p. 136. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9.
- ^ Tytler, Harry Christopher (1915). "Notes on some new and interesting butterflies from Manipur and the Naga Hills". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 23 (2): 122.
- ^ "Everes lacturnus Godart, 1824 – Oriental Cupid". Retrieved 9 July 2017.
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