Cigaritis | |
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Cigaritis syama in Nepal | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Subfamily: | Aphnaeinae |
Genus: | Cigaritis Donzel, 1847 |
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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.
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]
Listed alphabetically: [3]