Cupido alcetas (Hoffmannsegg, 1804)

Имаго Cupido alcetas

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Cupido (Everes) alcetas (Hoffmannsegg, 1804) = Everes alcetas = Papilio alcetas Hoffmannsegg, 1804 = Papilio coretas Ochsenheimer, 1808 = Everes alcetas. [9, 10, 85]

Provençal Short-tailed Blue.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #6. Evropeisky Severo-Vostochny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny*; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #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 alcetas

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Everes alcetas. [85].

Distribution

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

Larva food plants / other food objects

Coronilla varia, Galega officinalis, indifferent to the caterpillars ants genus Formica. [28].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Simon Coombes, 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
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015

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28.06.2009 21:08, Boris Stradomsky

(= Coretas (Ochsenheimer, 1807)).
Description. Length of front wing 11-16 mm. Wings top male blue-violet with a very narrow black edge, females - brown; bottom - a pale blue-gray. Marginal low contrast image below. At the rear wing of the thread-like tail length not exceeding 1.0 mm.At its base from the bottom of the rear wings often marginalized orange spots absent or weakly expressed there is one spot.
The length of the valve, including the length of the costal process is 0.9-1.2 mm.
Biology. Grasslands of various types, forest edge. In the mountains up to 1000 m. Years of adults: May-July in 1-2 generations, depending on the habitat.Forage plants caterpillars: Coronilla, Galega, Trifolium, Vicia and others. Contact with ants Formica spp.
Related and similar species. C. argiades: 2-3 has a marginal orange spot at the base of tail on the underside of the rear wings; C. decoloratus: top male blue wings; types subgen.Cupido: rear wing without filamentous tail; C. fischeri: top male brown-brown, marked differences in the male genitalia.