Cupido lacturnus

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Cupido lacturnus
Indian cupid (Cupido lacturnus lacturnus) underside.jpg
In Sri Lanka
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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]

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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.

Subspecies

The subspecies of Cupido lacturnus are: [3] [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 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.
  2. 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.
  3. "Everes lacturnus Godart, 1824 – Oriental Cupid" . Retrieved 9 July 2017.