Cupido lacturnus

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Indian Cupid
In Sri Lanka
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Cupido
Species:	C. lacturnus
Binomial name
Cupido lacturnus (Godart, [1824])

Cupido lacturnus, the Indian Cupid,^[1] is a small butterfly found in the Australasian and Indomalayan realms that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.^[1]

Harry Tytler described C. l. assamica on 1915 as:

Male. Upperside: Compared to Chilades parrhasius, black border much broader on both wings. Female. Upperside: the discal greyish-blue patch on forewing much reduced, darker and hardly visible; hindwing rather darker. Underside: similar.

— Harry Tytler^[2]

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  Upper side (male)
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  Upper side (female)
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  Under side (male)
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  Under side (female)
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  Mating pair

The subspecies of Cupido lacturnus are:^[3][1]

• Cupido lacturnus syntala Cantlie, 1963 – Gujarat southwards to Andhra Pradesh and Kerala.
• Cupido lacturnus assamica Tytler, 1915 – Himachal Pradesh to N.E. India; Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
• Cupido lacturnus pila Evans, 1925 – Andamans & Nicobars Is. (All Nicobars).