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Cigaritis

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Lycaenidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Cigaritis Donzel, 1847

Cigaritis

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.

Species

  • Cigaritis abnormis Moore, [1884]
  • Cigaritis acamas (Klug, 1834)
  • Cigaritis allardi Oberthür, 1909
  • Cigaritis apelles (Oberthür, 1878)
  • Cigaritis apuleia (Hulstaert, 1924)
  • Cigaritis arooni (Murayama & Kimura, 1990) northern Thailand
  • Cigaritis avriko (Karsch, 1893)
  • Cigaritis baghirmii (Stempffer, 1946)
  • Cigaritis bergeri (Bouyer, 2003) DRC, Katanga, Sandoa
  • Cigaritis brunnea (Jackson, 1965)
  • Cigaritis buchanani (Rothschild, 1921)
  • Cigaritis cilissa Lederer, 1861
  • Cigaritis collinsi (Kielland, 1980)
  • Cigaritis crustaria (Holland, 1890)
  • Cigaritis cynica (Riley, 1921)
  • Cigaritis dufranei (Bouyer, 1991)
  • Cigaritis elima Moore, 1877 India and Ceylon
  • Cigaritis ella (Hewitson, [1865])
  • Cigaritis elwesi Evans, [1925] northwestern India
  • Cigaritis epargyros (Eversmann, 1854) Arabia, Afghanistan and northern China
  • Cigaritis evansii (Tytler, 1915) Assam
  • Cigaritis gilletti (Riley, 1925)
  • Cigaritis greeni (Heron, 1896) Ceylon
  • Cigaritis hassoni (Bouyer, 2003)
  • Cigaritis homeyeri (Dewitz, 1886)
  • Cigaritis ictis Hewitson, [1865] Ceylon and India
  • Cigaritis iza (Hewitson, 1865)
  • Cigaritis junodi (D'Abrera, 1980) Transvaal
  • Cigaritis kutu (Corbet, 1940) Malaysia
  • Cigaritis kuyaniana Matsumura Taiwan
  • Cigaritis learmondi (Tytler, 1940) Burma and Thailand
  • Cigaritis leechi Swinhoe, 1912 western China
  • Cigaritis lilacinus (Moore, 1884) Burma
  • Cigaritis lohita (Horsfield, [1829])
  • Cigaritis lunulifera Moore India
  • Cigaritis lutosa Plötz, 1880 Ashanti region, southeastern Ghana
  • Cigaritis maxima Staudinger, 1901
  • Cigaritis maximus (Elwes, [1893]) 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 (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 Ceylon
  • Cigaritis nyassae (Butler, 1884)
  • Cigaritis overlaeti (Bouyer, 1998)
  • Cigaritis phanes (Trimen, 1873)
  • Cigaritis pinheyi (Heath, 1983)
  • Cigaritis rukma (de Nicéville, [1889]) Sikkim and Bhutan
  • Cigaritis rukmini de Nicéville, [1889] Sikkim and Assam
  • Cigaritis schistacea Moore, 1881 India and Ceylon
  • Cigaritis scotti (Gabriel, 1954)
  • Cigaritis seliga (Fruhstorfer, 1912) Malaysia, southern Burma, Thailand and Borneo
  • Cigaritis shaba (Bouyer, 1991)
  • Cigaritis siphax (Lucas, 1849) Algeria and Tunisia
  • Cigaritis somalina (Butler, 1886)
  • Cigaritis syama (Horsfield, [1829]) or Cigaritis syma (Horsfield, 1829) 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 Yunnan (China)
  • Cigaritis zohra Donzel, 1847 Morocco and Algeria

    • References

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