Cigaritis

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Cigaritis
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Cigaritis syama in Nepal
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Aphnaeinae
Genus: Cigaritis
Donzel, 1847
Synonyms
  • ZerythisLucas, 1849
  • SpindasisWallengren, 1857
  • SpindasisWallengren, 1858
  • ApharitisRiley, 1925

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.

Contents

Cigaritis includes species that used to be placed in two other genera: ApharitisRiley, 1925 and SpindasisWallengren, 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:

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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.
  4. ↑ "Bengaluru biologists spot new butterfly species in Coorg; first one in the Western Ghats in four decades".


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