Cupido decolorata
Species of butterfly
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| Cupido decolorata | |
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| Cupido decolorata as Polyommatus saportae Duponchel, 1832 | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Cupido |
| Species: | C. decolorata |
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| Cupido decolorata (Staudinger, 1886)[1] | |
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Cupido decolorata, the Eastern short-tailed blue, is a small butterfly found in the Palearctic (Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, Spain, Romania, Slovakia and the Soviet Union - the European part, the Czech Republic, Yugoslavia, Russian Federation) that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.
Description
It is a small butterfly with a sexual dimorphism, the upperside of the male is dull blue bordered with grey, that of the female is brown, both with a white fringe. The underside is pale grey a little suffused with blue and decorated with lines of small black dots.This species is similar to the Short-tailed blue (Everes argiades) and to Cupido alcetas.
Biology
The larva on feeds on Medicago sativa, Medicago lupulina
See also
- List of butterflies of Russia
- Images representing Cupido decoloratus at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
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