Cupido argiades (Pallas, 1771)

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 argiades

Species name(s)

Cupido (Everes) argiades (Pallas, 1771) = Everes argiades = Papilio argiades Pallas, 1771 = Papilio amyntas Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775. [9, 10, 85]

Short-tailed Blue.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 9.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic, Nearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #21. Severo-Yeniseisky*; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #31. Yuzhno-Yakutsky; #33. Severo-Okhotomorsky; #34. Kamchatsky*; #35. Sredne-Okhotsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #38. Sakhalin; #39. Yuzhno-Kurilsky; #40. Primorsky.

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

Forewing length

10—15 mm.

Primary colors

Orange, Blue, Brown/Gray/Black.

Flight time

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Larva lifespan

 					January 					February 					March 					April 					May 					June 					July 					August 					September 					October 					November 					December 			

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Everes argiades. [85].

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, the Channel Islands, Poland, Russia, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part)Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Kamchatka (?), Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny-Amur, Lower Volga, Prealtay, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Primorye, Sakhalin, the North-Yenisei (?), North Okhotsk, Mid-Amur, Mid-Volzhsky, Average Okhotsk, Mid-Ural, Sredneobskaya, Tuva , South West Siberian Yuzhno-Kuril, South Ural, South Yakutia. [3].
Areal - Moderate Europe and North America. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

The length of the front wing is only one, or at most 1.5 cm. Females slightly larger than males, moreover, dark, almost black (male blue, glossy, and with conspicuous black dots on the border of the rear wings). [5].

General info about Imago

Places volley - the edge of the forest and forest roads, pebble slopes. [5].

Imago lifespan

Argiad flies in two generations - in May-June and mid-July to August. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Lotus, Coronilla, Medicago, Trifolium, Astragalus. [28].
Clover (especially red clover), alfalfa and lyadvenets. [5].

Larva lifespan

From September to April and from June to July. [5].

Subspecies of Cupido argiades

Cupido argiades argiades. [9]
C. a. chayuensis (Huang, 2001). [9]
C. a. diporides (Chapman, 1909). [9]
C. a. hellotia (Ménétriés, 1857). [9]
C. a. merisina (Lorkovic, 1943). [9]
C. a. nujiangensis (Huang, 2001). [9]
C. a. seidakkadaya (Myiashita & Uemura, 1976). [9]
C. a. seitzi (Wnukowsky, 1928). [9]
C. a. tibetanus (Lorkovic, 1943). [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Alexey Azizov, Vladimir Mescheryakov.

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
[5] Райххолф-Рим Х. Бабочки. М.: Астрель, 2002
[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