Chilades

Jewel blues

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 Freyeria Courvoisier, 1920 Lachides Nekrutenko, 1984 Luthrodes H.H.Druce, 1895

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

Incertae sedis:

Chilades evorae Libert, Baliteau & Baliteau, 2011
Chilades roemii Kalis, 1933 Java
Chilades saga Grose-Smith, 1895 Timor
Chilades yunnanensis Watkins, 1927 southwest China

Gallery

Small Cupid (Chilades contracta)
Eastern grass jewel (Chilades putli) in Bhuvanagiri, Andhra Pradesh
Plains Cupid (Chilades pandava)
Grass Cupid (Chilades trochylus)
Chilades naidina

References

↑ Woodhall, Steve. Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Cape Town:Struik Publishers, 2005.
↑ Chilades at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera

External links

Media related to Chilades at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Chilades at Wikispecies

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