Subspecies in India
(1) Huegelia hugelii hugelii (Gistel, 1857) – Kashmir Dusky Blue Cupid (=Everes argiades indica Evans, 1932)
(2) Huegelia hugelii dipora (Moore, 1865) – Himalayan Dusky Blue Cupid
In the past, the species name has sometimes been spelled Everes huegeli.
Taxonomic Information
This species was previously treated as Everes hugelii. It is now placed in a new genus based on a recent phylogenetic study (Nazari et al. 2025).
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Maharashtra | |||||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 2 | 4 | 1 | 10 | |||||||||
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| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
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| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
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| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 5 | 5 | 1 | ||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 |
Nazari, V., ten Hagen, W., Walter, J., Bartoňová, A. S., Naderi, A., Krupitsky, A. V, & Fric, Z. F. (2025). Cupid’s sisterhood: comprehensive sampling sheds light on the systematics and evolution of the cosmopolitan butterfly genus Cupido Schrank, 1801 and its relatives (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 205:zlaf170.
Page citation
Kunte, K. 2026. Huegelia hugelii (Gistel, 1857) – Dusky Blue Cupid. In Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.12. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/huegelia-hugelii, accessed 2026/05/24.