Chilades
Jewel blues | |
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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 |
Chilades, commonly called jewel blues,[1] is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Old World and in Australia.
Species
Listed alphabetically within groups:[2]
The cleotas species group:
- Chilades boopis (Fruhstorfer, 1897) Indonesia (Misool, Waigeo, Sulawesi, Banggai)
- Chilades buruana (Holland, 1900) Indonesia (Buru, Serang, Waigeu, Obi Islands)
- Chilades cleotas (Guérin-Méneville, [1831]) New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands, Aru, Timor, Wetar
- Chilades mindora (C. & R. Felder, [1865]) Philippines
- Chilades pandava (Horsfield, [1829]) – plains Cupid
- Chilades peripatria Hsu, 1980 Taiwan
The galba species group:
- Chilades contracta (Butler, 1880) – small Cupid
- Chilades galba (Lederer, 1855) – Persian grass blue
- Chilades ella (Butler, 1881) South Central Asia
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 – Ceylon, South India, northeast India, Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland), Ryukyu Islands
- Chilades sanctithomae (Sharpe, 1893)
- Chilades serrula (Mabille, 1890)
- Chilades trochylus (Freyer, 1845) – grass jewel
- Chilades evorae Libert, Baliteau & Baliteau, 2011
- Chilades roemii Kalis, 1933 Java
- Chilades saga Grose-Smith, 1895 Timor
- Chilades yunnanensis Watkins, 1927 southwest China
Gallery
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Small Cupid (Chilades contracta)
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Eastern grass jewel (Chilades putli) in Bhuvanagiri, Andhra Pradesh
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Plains Cupid (Chilades pandava)
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Grass Cupid (Chilades trochylus)
References
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