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title: "Kurzschwänziger Bläuling"
description: "Everes argiades — Insekten & Spinnen. The short-tailed blue or tailed Cupid (Cupido argiades) is a butterfly that forms part of the family Lycaenidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/de/animal/short-tailed-blue
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Kurzschwänziger Bläuling

> Everes argiades — Insekten & Spinnen. The short-tailed blue or tailed Cupid (Cupido argiades)  is a butterfly that forms part of the family Lycaenidae.

- Scientific name: *Everes argiades*
- Category: `insects` (Insekten & Spinnen)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Wiese & Feld)
- iNaturalist observations: 16132
- Wikidata: [Q25346464](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25346464)
- iNaturalist taxon: [59146](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/59146)

## Names

- en: Short-tailed Blue
- de: Kurzschwänziger Bläuling
- es: Naranjitas Rabicorta
- fr: Azuré du Trèfle

## Countries with the most observations

DE (2154), RU (2026), IT (1597), JP (1227), AT (1126), CN (1112), FR (793), KR (764), PL (624), ES (564), UA (343), CH (323)

## Summary

The short-tailed blue or tailed Cupid (Cupido argiades)  is a butterfly that forms part of the family Lycaenidae. It is found from Europe to Japan and in India.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-tailed_blue

## Photo

![Kurzschwänziger Bläuling](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/short-tailed-blue/medium.jpg)

Photo: Aleksandra Pogorzelska · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/136178567

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/short-tailed-blue?lang=de` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).