Cigaritis menelas

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Cigaritis menelas
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Cigaritis
Species:
C. menelas
Binomial name
Cigaritis menelas
(H. H. Druce, 1907) [1]
Synonyms
  • Spindasis menelasH. H. Druce, 1907

Cigaritis menelas, the red-spot silverline, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. The species was first described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1907. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, southern Nigeria and western Cameroon. [2] The habitat consists of forests.

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References

  1. Savela, Markku (March 9, 2019). "Cigaritis menelas (Druce, 1907)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
  2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Tribe Aphnaeini (part 2)". Archived from the original on 2014-10-15. Retrieved 2012-06-29.