Chilades parrhasius

Small Cupid
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

Chilades parrhasius, the Small Cupid, is a small butterfly that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. It is found in southern Turan, southern Ghissar, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and southern, central and north-west India.

Subspecies

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

See also

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

References

1. Chilades at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera

Sources

• Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
• Gaonkar, Harish (1996). Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (including Sri Lanka) - A Biodiversity Assessment of a Threatened Mountain System. Bangalore, India: Centre for Ecological Sciences.
• Gay, Thomas; Kehimkar, Isaac David; Punetha, Jagdish Chandra (1992). Common Butterflies of India. Nature Guides. Bombay, India: World Wide Fund for Nature-India by Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195631647.
• Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation.
• Kunte, Krushnamegh (2000). Butterflies of Peninsular India. India, A Lifescape. Hyderabad, India: Universities Press. ISBN 978-8173713545.
• Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329.