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.

Cigaritis
Cigaritis syama in Nepal
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Aphnaeinae
Genus: Cigaritis
Donzel, 1847
Synonyms
  • Zerythis Lucas, 1849
  • Spindasis Wallengren, 1857
  • Spindasis Wallengren, 1858
  • Apharitis Riley, 1925

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]

Status unclear:

  • Cigaritis kuyaniana (Matsumura, 1919)

References

  1. Heath, A., Newport, M.A., & Hancock, D., 2002. The butterflies of Zambia. African Butterfly Research Institute and The Lepidopterists’ Society of Africa. i-xvii, 1-137.
  2. Boyle, J.H., Kaliszewska, Z.A., Espeland, M., Suderman, T.R., Fleming, J., Heath, A., & Pierce, N.E., 2015. Phylogeny of the Aphnaeinae: myrmecophilous African butterflies with carnivorous and herbivorous life histories. Systematic entomology 40(1): 169–182.
  3. Savela, Markku. "Cigaritis Donzel, 1847". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 22, 2020.


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