Cupidopsis

Cupidopsis Karsch, 1895 Meadow Blues

Cupidopsis Karsch, 1895; Ent. Nachr. 21 (19/20): 298; TS: Lycaena jobates Hopffer

Cupidopsis; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [NHM-BMW]
Cupidopsis (Section Cupidopsis); Eliot, 1973, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6): 443
Cupidopsis (Lampidini); Clench, 1965, Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19: 391
Cupidopsis (Lycaenidae); Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 239
Cupidopsis (Polyommatini); [BK], 224; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 140; [AfrL]

Cupidopsis jobates (Hopffer, 1855)

-. See [maps]

Lycaena jobates Hopffer, 1855; Ber. Verh. Akad. Berlin 1855: 642; TL: Mozambique

Cupidopsis iobates[sic, jobates]; [BOW]: pl. 121, f. 19
Cupidopsis jobates; Clench, 1965, Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19: 392; [PBSA]; [EBW]; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 140; [AfrL]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]

C. j. jobates from (Kenya, Uganda) - Cape, Angola, Zaire, Togo, Benin, Guinea, Madagascar Tailed Meadow Blue

Lycaena siwani Trimen, 1862; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (3) 1: 402
- = Cupidopsis iobates iobates; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 240
- = ; [AfrL]
Cupido iobates ab. conjugens Strand, 1912; Archiv Naturg. 78 A (1): 81
- = ; [AfrL]
Cupido jobates ab. ochreopuncta Aurivillius, 1925; in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 13: 490
- = ; [AfrL]

Cupidopsis iobates iobates[sic, jobates]; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 240; [BK]: 224, pl. 23
Cupidopsis iobates ochreopuncta; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 240
Cupidopsis iobates f. conjungens[sic, conjugens]; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 240
Cupidopsis jobates jobates; [BAFR], 540; [MadL]; [AfrL]; [iNaturalist]

C. j. mauritanica Riley, 1932 Maritania, Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Bening, Nigeria - Ethiopia

Cupidopsis mauritanica Riley, 1932; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (10) 10: 141, pl. 9, f. 1-2
Cupidopsis iobates uranochroa Ungemach, 1932; Mém. Soc. Sci. nat. phys. Maroc 32: 97
- = ; [AfrL]

Cupidopsis iobates uranochroa; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 240
Cupidopsis jobates mauritanica; [AfrL]; [iNaturalist]
Cupidopsis jobates uranochroa; [BAFR], 540 (text); [CoL]
Cupidopsis mauretanica[sic, mauritanica]; Clench, 1965, Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19: 392
Cupidopsis mauritanica; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 240; [BAFR], 540; [CoL]

Cupidopsis cissus (Godart, [1824])

South Africa, Rhodesia, Sierra Leone - Kenya, E.Africa. See [maps] Meadow Blue

Polyommatus cissus Godart, [1824]; Encyclopédie Méthodique 9 (2): 683; TL: Cape of Good Hope
immaculatus (Stoneham, 1938) (Cupido); Bull. Stoneham Mus. (36): 3

Cupido cissus immaculatus; [CoL]
Cupido cissus; [CoL]
Cupidopsis cissus; Clench, 1965, Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19: 391; [BOW]: pl. 121, f. 17-18; [BAFR], 540; [BK]: 225; [MadL]; [AfrL]; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM]
Cupidopsis cissus f. immaculatus; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 240

C. c. cissus S.Africa - Kenya, Madagascar, Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria

Lycaena catharina Trimen, 1862; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (3) 1 (3): 281; TL: Knysna
- = ; [AfrL]
Lampides aberrans Butler, 1878; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 2 (10): 289; TL: Madagasar, Fianarantsoa
- = ; [AfrL]
Cupido cissus ♀ f. albiradiatus Stoneham, 1938; Bull. Stoneham Mus. (36): 3; TL: Kenya
- = ; [AfrL]

Cupido cissus albiradiatus; [CoL]
Cupidopsis cissus catharina; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 240
Cupidopsis cissus cissus; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 240; [AfrL]; [iNaturalist]
Cupidopsis cissus f. aberrans; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 240
Cupidopsis cissus f. albiradiatus; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 240
Lampides aberrans; [CoL]

C. c. extensa Libert, 2003 Gabon, Congo, Angola

Cupidopsis cissus extensa Libert, 2003; Lambillionea 103 (2 II): 320; TL: Gabon

Cupidopsis cissus extensa; [AfrL]; [iNaturalist]

References:

[AfrL] Mark C. Williams
Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperoidea; Compiled by Mark C. Williams, 7th ed. (2008) (April 2007); Afrototropical Butterflies; e-mail: Mark C. Williams
[BHL] The
Biodiversity Heritage Library; and on; Internet Archive; Note: The linking to the content of Internet Archive is somewhat delicate -- notify me when links break!
[CoL] Catalogue of Life
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Vandepitte, L., Hobern, D., Schalk, P., DeWalt, R. E., Ma, K., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Adlard, R., Aedo, C., et al. (2024). Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2024-03-26); https://doi.org/10.48580/dfz8d
[LEPIFORUM]
Lepiforum; Bestimmung von Schmetterlingen (Lepidoptera) und ihren Präimaginalstadien
[NHM-BMW] Natural History Museum
Butterflies and Moths of the World; Generic Names and their Type-species
[iNaturalist]
iNaturalist
[maps]
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Some related literature:

Aurivillius, 1925
Die Gross-Schmetteringe der Erde; 13 Band; Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 13 : 1-613, pl. 1-80
Butler, 1878
On a Collection of Lepidoptera recently received from Madagascar Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 2 (10) : 283-297
[BAFR]; D'Abrera, 1980
Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region: -
[PBSA]; Dickson & Kroon, 1978
Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa
Eliot, 1973
The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative Arrangement Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6) : 373-505 (162fgs), pl. 1-6
Clench in Fox, Lindsey, Clench & Miller, 1965
The Butterflies of Liberia Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19 : 1-438
Godart, [1824]
Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire naturelle Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des crustacés, des arachnides et des insectes Encyclopédie Méthodique 9 (1): 3-328 (1819), (2): 329-828 ([1824])
Hopffer, 1855
[Lepidoptera Diurna] Ber. Verh. Akad. Berlin 1855 : 639-643
Karsch, 1895
Aethiopische Rhopaloceren. I & II Ent. Nachr. 21 (18): 275-286, (19/20): 289-322
[BK]; Larsen, 1996
The Butterflies of Kenya and their natural history Butterflies of Kenya
[MadL]; Lees, Kremen & Raharitsimba, 2003
Classification, Diversity and Endemism of the Butterflies (Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea): A Revised Species Checklist in Goodman & Benstead, Nat. Hist. Madagascar : 762-793
[BOW]; Lewis, 1974
Butterflies of the World
Libert, 2003
Note sur le genre Cupidopsis Karsch (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) Lambillionea 103 (2 II) : 319-324
Riley, 1932
New African and Arabian butterflies Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (10) 10 : 137-152
[EBW]; Smart, 1976
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World Illust. Encyp. Butt. World: -
Stempffer, 1967
The genera of the African Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10 : 1-322
Stoneham, 1938
Notes on African Lycaenidae, and some new forms Bull. Stoneham Mus. (36): 1-3
Strand, 1912
Ueber Lepidoptera aus Mkatta und Morogoro in Deutche Ost-Afrika, nebst beiträge zur kenntnis Afrikanische Taragama arten Archiv Naturg. 78 A (1) : 67-92
Trimen, 1862
On some New Species of South African Butterflies Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (3) 1 (3) : 279-291
Trimen, 1862
On some New Species of South African Butterflies, collected in British Kaffraria by W. S. M. D'Urban, Esq., during 1860-61 Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (3) 1 : 398-406
Ungemach, 1932
Contribution à l'étude des Lépidoptères d'Abyssinie (Pt. 1, Rhopalocères) Mém. Soc. Sci. nat. phys. Maroc 32 : 1-122, 2pls
Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003
The butterflies of Sulawesi: annotated checklist for a critical island faunda Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 3-268, pl. 1-16

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