Cigaritis
Butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae
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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.
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| Cigaritis syama in Nepal | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Aphnaeinae |
| Genus: | Cigaritis Donzel, 1847 |
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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,[1] and this synonymy is followed in recent works.[2]
Species
Listed alphabetically:[3]
- 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, 1966)
- Cigaritis buchanani (Rothschild, 1921)
- Cigaritis cilissa Lederer, 1861
- Cigaritis collinsi (Kielland, 1980)
- Cigaritis crustaria (Holland, 1890)
- Cigaritis cynica (Riley, 1921)
- Cigaritis dhofarina Seizmair, 2017
- Cigaritis ducarmei (Bouyer, 2008) Congo
- Cigaritis dufranei (Bouyer, 1991) Zaïre
- Cigaritis elima (Moore, 1877) India and Sri Lanka
- Cigaritis ella (Hewitson, 1865)
- Cigaritis elwesi Evans, [1925] northwestern India
- Cigaritis epargyros (Eversmann, 1854) Arabia, Afghanistan and northern China
- Cigaritis evansii (Tytler, 1915) India ( Assam)
- Cigaritis gilletti (Riley, 1925)
- Cigaritis greeni (Heron, 1896) Sri Lanka
- Cigaritis hassoni (Bouyer, 2003)
- Cigaritis homeyeri (Dewitz, 1886)
- Cigaritis ictis (Hewitson, 1865) Sri Lanka and India
- Cigaritis iza (Hewitson, 1865)
- Cigaritis junodi (D'Abrera, 1980) South Africa
- Cigaritis kutu (Corbet, 1940) Malaysia
- Cigaritis kuyaniana (Matsumura, 1919) Taiwan
- Cigaritis larseni (Bouyer, 2012) Cameroon to Ghana
- Cigaritis learmondi (Tytler, 1940) Myanmar and Thailand
- Cigaritis leechi (Swinhoe, 1912) China
- Cigaritis lilacinus (Moore, 1884) Myanmar
- Cigaritis lohita (Horsfield, [1829])
- Cigaritis lunulifera (Moore, 1879) India
- Cigaritis lutosus (Plötz, 1880) Ghana
- Cigaritis maximus (Elwes, [1893]) Myanmar, Thailand and Laos
- Cigaritis meghamalaiensis Sadasivan & Naicker, 2023[4] Southern India (Western Ghats)
- [= Cigaritis conjuncta Kunte & Sengupta, 2024, See Sadasivan & Sengupta, 2024].[5]
- Cigaritis menelas (Druce, 1907)
- Cigaritis mishmisensis (South, 1913) Northeastern India (Mishimi Hills)
- 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) India and Nepal
- Cigaritis nubilus (Moore, [1887]) Sri Lanka
- Cigaritis nyassae (Butler, 1884)
- Cigaritis overlaeti (Bouyer, 1998)
- Cigaritis phanes (Trimen, 1873)
- Cigaritis pinheyi (Heath, 1983)
- Cigaritis rukma (de Nicéville, [1889]) India (Sikkim), Bhutan
- Cigaritis rukmini (de Nicéville, [1889]) India (Sikkim and Assam)
- Cigaritis schistacea (Moore, [1881]) India and Sri Lanka
- Cigaritis scotti (Gabriel, 1954)
- Cigaritis seliga (Fruhstorfer, 1912) Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia
- Cigaritis shaba (Bouyer, 1991)
- Cigaritis siphax (Lucas, 1849) Algeria and Tunisia
- Cigaritis somalina (Butler, [1886])
- Cigaritis syama (Horsfield, [1829]) China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore and Philippines
- Cigaritis takanonis (Matsumura, 1906) Japan
- Cigaritis tanganyikae (Kielland, 1990)
- Cigaritis tavetensis (Lathy, 1906)
- Cigaritis trifurcata (Moore, 1882) India
- Cigaritis trimeni (Neave, 1910)
- Cigaritis uighurica Kemal & Koçak, 2005 (Replacement name for Cigaritis maxima Staudinger, 1901, junior homonym of Cigaritis maximus (Elwes, [1893])
- Cigaritis victoriae (Butler, 1884)
- Cigaritis vixinga (Hewitson, 1875) Thailand, Indonesia
- Cigaritis vulcanus (Fabricius, 1775)
- Cigaritis zhengweille (Huang, 1998) Yunnan (China)
- Cigaritis zohra Donzel, 1847 Morocco and Algeria
