| Scarce shot silverline | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Cigaritis |
| Species: | C. elima |
| Binomial name | |
| Cigaritis elima (Moore, 1877) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Cigaritis elima, the scarce shot silverline, [1] [2] is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in Sri Lanka and India. The species was first described by Frederic Moore in 1877. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Wings acute at apex; anal lobe prominently distended.
Male: Upperside brown, posterior half of fore wing and middle of hind wing glossed with smalt-blue; fore wing with a not very prominent subapical reddish patch, in which are two brown spots; abdominal margin pale testaceous; anal lobe reddish testaceous.
Female: Brown; fore wing with large triangular maculated red patch; hind wing with reddish discal streak and anal lobe. Underside dull pale testaceous; transverse spots and bands very pale, being defined only by outer margins, each traversed by a silver streak; no marginal row of dots.Most nearly allied to Cigaritis ictis , from which it may be known by the less prominent apical red patch, the difference in colour and less apparent markings of the underside.
Subspecies of Cigaritis elima:- [5]
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain : Moore, Frederic (1877). "Descriptions of Asiatic Diurnal Lepidoptera". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. London: 51.