Cigaritis tavetensis

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Cigaritis tavetensis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Cigaritis
Species:
C. tavetensis
Binomial name
Cigaritis tavetensis
(Lathy, 1906) [1]
Synonyms
  • Spindasis tavetensisLathy, 1906

Cigaritis tavetensis, the Taveta silverline, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in western Tanzania. [2] The habitat consists of savanna.

They feed on Acacia drepanolobium within galls. They are associated with ants of the genus Pheidole .

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References

  1. Cigaritis at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Tribe Aphnaeini (part 2)". Archived from the original on 2014-10-15. Retrieved 2012-06-29.