Cupido decolorata (Staudinger, 1886)

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 decolorata

Species name(s)

Cupido (Everes) decolorata (Staudinger, 1886) = Cupido decoloratus (Staudinger, 1886) = Lycaena decolorata Staudinger, 1886 = Papilio sebrus Hübner, [1823-1824] = Polyommatus saportae Duponchel, 1832 = Everes decolorata = Everes decoloratus. [3, 9, 10]

Eastern Short-tailed Blue.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #11. Volgo-Donsky.

Primary colors

Blue, Brown/Gray/Black.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, Spain, Romania, Slovakia and the Soviet Union - the European part, the Czech Republic, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Greece (mainland), Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Croatia, Czech Republic, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, the European Central Black Earth. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Medicago sativa, M. lupulina. [28].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Igor Sakhno, Dmitry Borisyuk.

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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23.06.2009 22:27, Boris Stradomsky

(= Sebrus (Hübner, 1807)).
Description. Length of front wing 11-14 mm. Wings of male blue top with an edge dimming (about 1 mm) and dark veins, females - brown; bottom - light gray. Marginal low contrast image below. At the rear wing of the thread-like tail length of about 1.0 mm.At its base from the bottom of the rear wings often orange marginal or no spots are only traces of them.
The length of the valve, including the length of the costal process is 0.8-0.9 mm.
Biology. Mesophytic meadows, mostly in the woods. Years of adults: end of May-August 2 generations. Forage plants caterpillars: Trifolium, Vicia, Medicago. Caterpillar overwinters.
Subspecies.Subspecies within C. decoloratus not described.
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. alcetas: the wings of the male top blue-violet; types subgen.Cupido: rear wing without filamentous tail; T. fischeri: top male brown-brown, marked differences in the male genitalia.