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Chilades
Sign in to saveChilades, commonly called jewel blues, is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Old World and in Australia.
Species
Plains Cupid
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyLycaenidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 53
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Collections
- YPM, NHMUK, GUAM, USNM
- Recorded in
- Kenya, Ethiopia, China, Egypt, Pakistan, New Caledonia, Somalia, India
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- Polyommatini
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Chilades, commonly called jewel blues, 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: Chilades alberta (Butler, 1901) [now viewed as a species of Euchrysops] Chilades eleusis (Demaison, 1888) Chilades elicola (Strand, 1911) Chilades evorae Libert, Baliteau & Baliteau, 2011 - Cape Verde (Santo Antão) Chilades kedonga (Grose-Smith, 1898) Chilades lajus or Chilades laius (Stoll, [1780]) – lime blue Chilades naidina (Butler, [1886]) Chilades parrhasius (Fabricius, 1793) – Indian Cupid Chilades roemli Kalis, 1933 Java Chilades saga Grose-Smith, 1895 Timor Chilades serrula (Mabille, 1890) Chilades yunnanensis Watkins, 1927 southwest China
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