''Cigaritis'' is a

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butterflies Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

in the

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. Its species are found in the

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, the

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and adjacent regions of Asia. ''Cigaritis'' includes species that used to be placed in two other genera: ''Apharitis'' Riley, 1925 and ''Spindasis'' Wallengren, 1857. The latter were synonymised with ''Cigaritis'' by Heath ''et al.'', 2002,, 2002. ''The butterflies of Zambia. African Butterfly Research Institute and The Lepidopterists’ Society of Africa''. i-xvii, 1-137. and this synonymy is followed in recent works., 2015. Phylogeny of the Aphnaeinae: myrmecophilous African butterflies with carnivorous and herbivorous life histories. ''Systematic entomology'' 40(1): 169–182.

Species

Listed alphabetically: *'' Cigaritis abnormis'' (Moore,

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Cigaritis acamas ''Cigaritis acamas'', the tawny silverline, Arab leopard or leopard butterfly, is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly. It is found from North Africa and the Near East to India. The range includes Sudan, Arabia (United Arab Emirates) and Soma ...

'' (Klug, 1834) *'' Cigaritis allardi'' Oberthür, 1909 *'' Cigaritis apelles'' (Oberthür, 1878) *''

Cigaritis apuleia ''Cigaritis apuleia'' is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in the Republic of the Congo and the Uele in the Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo ...

'' (Hulstaert, 1924) *'' Cigaritis arooni'' (Murayama & Kimura, 1990) northern Thailand *'' Cigaritis avriko'' (Karsch, 1893) *'' Cigaritis baghirmii'' (Stempffer, 1946) *'' Cigaritis bergeri'' (Bouyer, 2003)

DRC The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...

, Katanga, Sandoa *'' Cigaritis brunnea'' (Jackson, 1966) *'' Cigaritis buchanani'' (Rothschild, 1921) *'' Cigaritis cilissa'' Lederer, 1861 *'' Cigaritis collinsi'' (Kielland, 1980) *'' Cigaritis crustaria'' (Holland, 1890) *'' Cigaritis cynica'' (Riley, 1921) *''

Cigaritis dufranei ''Cigaritis dufranei'' is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in southern Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique d ...

'' (Bouyer, 1991) *''

Cigaritis elima ''Cigaritis elima'', the scarce shot silverline, is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in Sri Lanka and India. The species was first described by Frederic Moore Frederic Moore FZS (13 May 1830 – 10 May 1907) was a British entom ...

'' (Moore, 1877) India and Ceylon *'' Cigaritis ella'' (Hewitson, 1865) *''

Cigaritis elwesi ''Cigaritis'' is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Its species are found in the Afrotropical realm, the Indomalayan realm and adjacent regions of Asia. ''Cigaritis'' includes species that used to be placed in two other genera: ''A ...

'' Evans,

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/small> northwestern India *'' Cigaritis epargyros'' (Eversmann, 1854) Arabia, Afghanistan and northern China *'' Cigaritis evansii'' (Tytler, 1915) Assam *''

Cigaritis gilletti ''Cigaritis gilletti'' is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Somalia Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Fed ...

'' (Riley, 1925) *'' Cigaritis greeni'' (Heron, 1896) Ceylon *'' Cigaritis hassoni'' (Bouyer, 2003) *'' Cigaritis homeyeri'' (Dewitz, 1886) *''

Cigaritis ictis The Common shot silverline, ''Cigaritis ictis'', is a species of lycaenid butterflies. It is native to India and Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan population is classified as a subspecies In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below spe ...

'' (Hewitson, 1865) Ceylon and India *'' Cigaritis iza'' (Hewitson, 1865) *'' Cigaritis junodi'' (D'Abrera, 1980) Transvaal *'' Cigaritis kutu'' (Corbet, 1940) Malaysia *'' Cigaritis learmondi'' (Tytler, 1940) Burma and Thailand *'' Cigaritis leechi'' (Swinhoe, 1912) western China *''

Cigaritis lilacinus ''Cigaritis lilacinus'', the lilac silverline, is a species of Lycaenidae, lycaenid or blue butterfly found in Asia. Range The lilac silverline is found in India, Myanmar and N.Thailand. In India, this butterfly is found from Uttarakhand and Him ...

'' (Moore, 1884) Burma *'' Cigaritis lohita'' (Horsfield,

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*'' Cigaritis lunulifera'' (Moore, 1879) India *'' Cigaritis lutosus'' (Plötz, 1880) Ashanti region, southeastern Ghana *'' Cigaritis maxima'' Staudinger, 1901 *'' Cigaritis maximus'' (Elwes,

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Burma, Thailand and Laos *'' Cigaritis menelas'' (Druce, 1907) *'' Cigaritis mishmisensis'' (South, 1913) Mishimi Hills (northeastern India) *'' Cigaritis modestus'' (Trimen, 1891) *'' Cigaritis montana'' (Joicey & Talbot, 1924) *'' Cigaritis mozambica'' (Bertolini, 1850) *'' Cigaritis myrmecophila'' Dumont, 1922 *''

Cigaritis nairobiensis ''Cigaritis nairobiensis'' is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Kenya, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Shaba). The larvae feed on ''Rhus villosa ''Villosa'' is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic biva ...

'' (Sharpe, 1904) *'' Cigaritis namaquus'' (Trimen, 1874) *'' Cigaritis natalensis'' (Westwood, 1851) *'' Cigaritis nilus'' (Hewitson, 1865) *'' Cigaritis nipalicus'' (Moore, 1884) western India and Nepal *'' Cigaritis nubilus'' (Moore,

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Ceylon *'' Cigaritis nyassae'' (Butler, 1884) *'' Cigaritis overlaeti'' (Bouyer, 1998) *'' Cigaritis phanes'' (Trimen, 1873) *'' Cigaritis pinheyi'' (Heath, 1983) *'' Cigaritis rukma'' (de Nicéville,

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Sikkim and Bhutan *'' Cigaritis rukmini'' (de Nicéville,

Sikkim and Assam *'' Cigaritis schistacea'' (Moore, 881 India and Ceylon *'' Cigaritis scotti'' (Gabriel, 1954) *'' Cigaritis seliga'' (Fruhstorfer, 1912) Malaysia, southern Burma, Thailand and Borneo *''

Cigaritis shaba ''Cigaritis shaba'' is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally C ...

'' (Bouyer, 1991) *'' Cigaritis siphax'' (Lucas, 1849) Algeria and Tunisia *'' Cigaritis somalina'' (Butler,

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*'' Cigaritis syama'' (Horsfield,

central and western China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indochina, Thailand, Sumatra, Singapore, Java, Borneo and Philippines *'' Cigaritis takanonis'' (Matsumura, 1906) Japan *'' Cigaritis tanganyikae'' (Kielland, 1990) *'' Cigaritis tavetensis'' (Lathy, 1906) *'' Cigaritis trifurcata'' (Moore, 1882) northwestern, central and eastern India *'' Cigaritis trimeni'' (Neave, 1910) *'' Cigaritis victoriae'' (Butler, 1884) *'' Cigaritis vixinga'' (Hewitson, 1875) Thailand, Borneo and Sumatra *'' Cigaritis vulcanus'' (Fabricius, 1775) *'' Cigaritis zhengweille'' (Huang, 1998) Yunnan (China) *'' Cigaritis zohra'' Donzel, 1847 Morocco and Algeria Status unclear: *'' Cigaritis kuyaniana'' (Matsumura, 1919)

References

External links

"''Cigaritis'' Donzel, 1847"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
Seitz, A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 69
Lycaenidae genera Taxa named by Hugo Fleury Donzel {{Aphnaeini-stub