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 members (species) of this genus are found in the Old world and also in Australia. Media related to Chilades at Wikimedia Commons Data related to Chilades at Wikispecies

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

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  Small Cupid (Chilades contracta)

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  Eastern Grass Jewel (Chilades putli) in Bhuvanagiri, Andhra Pradesh

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  Plains Cupid (Chilades pandava)

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  Grass Cupid (Chilades trochylus)

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  (Chilades naidina)

References

1. Woodhall, Steve. Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Cape Town:Struik Publishers, 2005.
2. Chilades, funet.fi

Further reading

Chilades "Le genre Chilades" provides distribution information in French.