''Cacyreus'' is an

Afrotropical The Afrotropical realm is one of Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Africa south of the Sahara Desert, the majority of the Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, southern Iran and extreme southwestern Pakistan, and the island ...

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

butterflies Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises t ...

in the family

Lycaenidae Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfly ...

Species

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Cacyreus audeoudi ''Cacyreus audeoudi'', the Audeoud's blue or bright bush blue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria (south and the Cross River loop), Cameroon, the Republic of the C ...

'' Stempffer, 1936 *''

Cacyreus darius ''Cacyreus darius'' is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found on Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion and the Comoros. The habitat consists of forests, forest margins and anthropogenic environments. Known food plants of this species ar ...

'' (Mabille, 1877) *''

Cacyreus dicksoni ''Cacyreus dicksoni'', the Dickson's geranium bronze, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found from South Africa, from the West Cape along the coast to the North Cape. The wingspan is 16–24 mm for males and 19–25 mm for ...

'' Pennington, 1962 *''

Cacyreus ethiopicus ''Cacyreus ethiopicus'' is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethio ...

'' Tite, 1961 *''

Cacyreus lingeus ''Cacyreus lingeus'', the common bush blue or bush bronze, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. As with other ''Cacyreus'' species it is endemic to the Afrotropics. Range It is a common species in much of sub-Saharan Africa, though mostly at ...

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Cacyreus niebuhri ''Cacyreus niebuhri'' is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Ar ...

'' Larsen, 1982 *''

Cacyreus marshalli The geranium bronze or ''brun des pélargoniums'' in French (''Cacyreus marshalli''), is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. The geranium bronze butterfly is native to South Africa. The butterfly was first introduced to Europe in the late ...

'' Butler, 1897 *''

Cacyreus tespis ''Cacyreus tespis'', the water bronze or water blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found from South Africa to Ethiopia. The wingspan is 15–25 mm for males and 17–25 mm for females. Adults are on wing year-round in ...

'' (Herbst, 1804) *''

Cacyreus virilis ''Cacyreus virilis'', the eastern bush blue, mocker bronze or mocker blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found from South Africa to Zimbabwe, through central and eastern Africa to south-western Arabia. The wingspan is 24–26&nbs ...

'' Stempffer, 1936

External links

''Cacyreus''
at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera * * Lycaenidae genera {{Polyommatini-stub