Chilades

Jewel Blues

Chilades trochylus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Chilades Moore, [1881]
Species
Several, see text
Synonyms
Edales Swinhoe, 1910 Freyeria Courvoisier, 1920 Lachides Nekrutenko, 1984 Luthrodes H.H.Druce, 1895

Chilades, commonly called Jewel Blues,^[1] is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

The members (species) of this genus are found in the Old world and also in Australia. Media related to Chilades at Wikimedia Commons Data related to Chilades at Wikispecies

Species

Listed alphabetically within groups.^[2] The cleotas species-group:

Chilades boopis (Fruhstorfer, 1897)
Chilades buruana (Holland, 1900)
Chilades cleotas (Guérin-Méneville, [1831])
Chilades mindora (C. & R. Felder, [1865])
Chilades pandava (Horsfield, [1829]) – Plains Cupid
Chilades peripatria Hsu, 1980

The galba species-group:

Chilades contracta (Butler, 1880) – Small Cupid
Chilades galba (Lederer, 1855) – Persian Grass Blue
Chilades ella (Butler, 1881)

The lajus species-group:

Chilades alberta (Butler, 1901) [now viewed as a species of Euchrysops]
Chilades eleusis (Demaison, 1888)
Chilades elicola (Strand, 1911)
Chilades lajus or Chilades laius (Stoll, [1780]) – Lime Blue
Chilades minuscula (Aurivillius, 1909)
Chilades naidina (Butler, [1886])
Chilades parrhasius (Fabricius, 1793) – Indian Cupid
Chilades putli (Kollar, [1844]) – Eastern Grass Jewel
Chilades sanctithomae (Sharpe, 1893)
Chilades serrula (Mabille, 1890)
Chilades trochylus (Freyer, 1845) – Grass Jewel

Incertae sedis:

Chilades evorae Libert, Baliteau & Baliteau, 2011
Chilades roemii Kalis, 1933
Chilades saga Grose-Smith, 1895
Chilades yunnanensis Watkins, 1927

Gallery

Small Cupid (Chilades contracta)
Eastern Grass Jewel (Chilades putli) in Bhuvanagiri, Andhra Pradesh
Plains Cupid (Chilades pandava)
Grass Cupid (Chilades trochylus)
(Chilades naidina)

References

↑ Woodhall, Steve. Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Cape Town:Struik Publishers, 2005.
↑ Chilades, funet.fi

Wikispecies has information related to: Chilades Species and Subspecies