Osiris blue

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Species of butterfly

Osiris blue

Female Osiris blue
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Lycaenidae
Genus:  | Cupido
Species:  |

C. osiris

Binomial name
Cupido osiris

Meigen, 1829

Synonyms

* Polyommatus sebrus (Boisduval, 1832)

The Osiris blue (Cupido osiris) is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in South Europe, Asia Minor, southern Siberia, the Alay Mountains, Tian-Shan, Dzhungarsky Alatau, the Altai Region, the Sayan mountains, Lake Baikal and Mongolia. It is often confused with the small blue, a closely related species.

The larvae feed on Onobrychis and Leguminosae species.

## Description from Seitz[edit]

For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

L. sebrus Bdv. (82 c). Above dull violet-blue (male) or black-brown (female). with the markings of the underside feebly shining through, narrow black margin and white fringes; beneath light ashy grey, the base dusted with blue, the ocelli and the median spot being very delicate. In the Alps, locally plentiful, southwards to Italy, south-eastwards to Asia Minor and eastwards to the Altai. Specimens with the ocelli prolonged occur also in this species, as proved by a fine specimen in Courvoisier's collection: ab. elongata Courv. i. l. — Larva on Onobrychis and Orobus, until April and again in June. The butterflies in the mountains, sporadic, in May and again from the end of June onwards.[1]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)

## External links[edit]

* Leps It: Images of Osiris blue

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q1424048
* Wikispecies: Cupido osiris
* BioLib: 51426
* BOLD: 70643
* EoL: 4048516
* EUNIS: 90596
* Fauna Europaea: 441116
* Fauna Europaea (new): 14b62ae8-a40f-4725-8a77-4e554ad5e131
* GBIF: 8030835
* iNaturalist: 362047
* NCBI: 282382

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