Chilades parrhasius

Indian Cupid
Chilades parrhasius Male left.Female right.From Seitz
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Chilades
Species:	C. parrhasius
Binomial name
Chilades parrhasius (Fabricius 1793)[1]
Synonyms
Hesperia parrhasius Fabricius, 1793 Freyeria parrhasius Lampides contracta Butler, 1880 Euchrysops contracta nila Evans, 1925 Euchrysops parrhasius minuta Evans, 1932

The Indian Cupid (Chilades parrhasius) is a small butterfly that belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues family. It is found from Sri Lanka and India to southern Iran, central and eastern Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen and Oman.^[2]

Subspecies

• Chilades parrhasius parrhasius
• Chilades parrhasius nila Evans, 1925 (Sri Lanka)
• Chilades parrhasius minuta (Evans, 1932) (Pakistan)

References

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Sources

• Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India
• Gaonkar, Harish (1996) Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (including Sri Lanka) - A Biodiversity Assessment of a threatened mountain system. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.
• Gay,Thomas; Kehimkar,Isaac & Punetha,J.C.(1992) Common Butterflies of India. WWF-India and Oxford University Press, Mumbai, India.
• Haribal, Meena (1994) Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and their Natural History.
• Kunte,Krushnamegh (2005) Butterflies of Peninsular India. Universities Press.
• Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.

See also

• Lycaenidae
• List of butterflies of India
• List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)