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Cupido decolorata (Staudinger, 1886)

Имаго Cupido decolorata

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.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8444

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

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

Primary colors

Blue, Brown/Gray/Black.

Самка Cupido decolorata

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

Comments

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15.10.2013 23:02, Peter Khramov

Shamil, in the fast searching synonyms are searched only by the full name. Ie decoloratus not find a Everes decoloratus find. But in the main title and will decolorata, and Cupido decolorata.

28.08.2013 17:56, Shamil Murtazin

Not looking for in a quick search on the synonym "decoloratus"

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.

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