Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Lycaenidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Cigaritis | |
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Similar Cigaritis mozambica, Aphnaeini, Spindasis, Theclinae | ||
Cigaritis nilus, the Saharan silverline, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, northern and eastern Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, southern Sudan, Uganda and northern Kenya. The habitat consists of sub-deserts and deserts, the Sahel, Sudan savanna and Guinea savanna.
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