Synonymy

• Cupido minimus carswelli Stempffer, 1927: 244.
• Cupido arcilacis Riley, 1927
• Cupido carswelli Stempffer

Primary references

• Stempffer, H., 1927. Description d'une forme nouvelle de Cupido minimus Fuess. [Lep. Lycaenidae]. Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 32(16): 244. ARK: 12148/bpt6k5552015n/f312.image . Reference page. 

• Riley, N.D. 1927. A new european Lycaenid: Cupido arcilacis. The Entomologist 60: 269–276. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Riley, N.D. 1928. Cupido carswelli Stempffer = Cupido arcilacis Riley. The Entomologist 61: 38, 91. Reference page. 

• Stempffer, H., 1928. Contribution à l’étude de Cupido carswelli Stempffer. Encyclopédie entomologique. Série B, Mémoires et notes, III: Lépidoptères. 3: 105–115. Reference page. 

• Gil-T., F. 2003. Cupido carswelli (Stempffer, 1927): descripción de sus estadios preimaginales, biología y distribución. La morfología de la crisálida, ¿clave para su rango específico? (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 32: 45–50. ResearchGate Reference page. 

• Gil-T., F. 2006. Cupido carswelli (Stempffer, 1927): morphology of its chrysalis and genitalia compared with those of Cupido minimus (Fuessly, 1775) and Cupido lorquinii (Herrich-Schäffer, 1847) (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Atalanta 37(1/2): 150–160, 280–281. ResearchGate . Reference page. 

• Prieto, C.G., Munguira, M.L. & Romo, H. 2009. Morphometric analysis of genitalia and wing pattern elements in the genus Cupido (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae): are Cupido minimus and C. carswelli different species? Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 56(1): 137–147. DOI: 10.1002/mmnd.200900012. Reference page. 

• Gil-T., F. 2017. Cupido carswelli (Stempffer, 1927), endemism from SE. Spain, a different species of Cupido minimus (Fuessly, 1775): updated distribution, identification of its larval host-plant and notes on taxonomy, ecology and morphology (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Atalanta 48 (1-4): 197–203. ResearchGate . Reference page.