Cupido osiris (Meigen, 1829)

Самец (Cupido osiris)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Lycaenidae → subfamily Polyommatinae → tribe Polyommatini → genus Cupido → subgenus Cupido → species Cupido osiris

Species name(s)

Cupido (Cupido) osiris (Meigen, 1829) = Polyommatus osiris Meigen, 1829 = sebrus (Boisduval, 1832) = majuspunctata (Verity, 1934). [9, 10]

Osiris Blue.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny*; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky*; #25. Tuvinsky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky.

* An asterisk denotes a region for which the species is listed as an migrant or information that requires additional checking.

Primary colors

Blue, Brown/Gray/Black.

Самец (Cupido osiris)

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part of France, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Macedonia, Portugal (mainland), Russia, Romania, North Aegean, Slovakia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, France (mainland), Croatia, Switzerland,Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Gorno-Altaisk (?), The European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga (?), Western Caucasus, Krasnoyarsk, Prealtay, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Mid-Volzhsky, Tuva, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Onobrychis, indifferent to the caterpillars ants Lasius alienus. [28].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Boris Stradomsky.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[1] O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
[3] Каталог чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) России. Под ред. С. Ю. Синёва. СПб.; М.: Товарищество научных изданий КМК, 2008
[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)
[28] Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (leps.it), 2012

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25.06.2009 18:59, Boris Stradomsky

(= Sebrus (Boisduval, 1832); = majuspunctata (Verity, 1934)).
Description. Fore wing length of 10 - 16 mm. Wings of male purple top, females - brown, bottom - light gray. Marginal figure below is virtually nonexistent.
The length of the valve, including the length of the costal process is 0.9 - 1.1 mm.
Biology. Grasslands of various types, steppe areas. In the mountains up to 2600 m.Years of adults: May-August in the 1-2 generations, depending on the habitat. Forage plants caterpillars: Onobrychis, Lathyrus. Winters larva or pupa. Contact with ants Lasius alienus.
Related and similar species. C.minimus: the wings of the male brown top, spraying blue scales at the root of the bottom of the rear wing is not developed, costal process of the valve is shorter; Everes species and Tongeia: rear wing with filamentous tail; Polyommatus semiargus: different structure of male genitalia.