''Cigaritis'' is a
genus
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of
butterflies
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in the
family
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Lycaenidae
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. Its species are found in the
Afrotropical realm
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, the
Indomalayan realm
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Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Ind ...
and adjacent regions of Asia.
''Cigaritis'' includes species that used to be placed in two other genera: ''Apharitis''
Riley, 1925 and ''Spindasis''
Wallengren, 1857. The latter were synonymised with ''Cigaritis'' by Heath ''et al.'', 2002,
[, 2002. ''The butterflies of Zambia. African Butterfly Research Institute and The Lepidopterists’ Society of Africa''. i-xvii, 1-137.] and this synonymy is followed in recent works.
[, 2015. Phylogeny of the Aphnaeinae: myrmecophilous African butterflies with carnivorous and herbivorous life histories. ''Systematic entomology'' 40(1): 169–182.]
Species
Listed alphabetically:
*''
Cigaritis abnormis''
(Moore, 884
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Events
By place Europe
* March 1 – Diego Rodríguez Porcelos, count of Castile, founds and repopulates (''repoblación'') Burgos a ...
*''
Cigaritis acamas''
(Klug, 1834)
*''
Cigaritis allardi''
Oberthür, 1909
*''
Cigaritis apelles''
(Oberthür, 1878)
*''
Cigaritis apuleia''
(Hulstaert, 1924)
*''
Cigaritis arooni''
(Murayama & Kimura, 1990) northern Thailand
*''
Cigaritis avriko''
(Karsch, 1893)
*''
Cigaritis baghirmii''
(Stempffer, 1946)
*''
Cigaritis bergeri''
(Bouyer, 2003) DRC
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Republic of the Congo), is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is t ...
, Katanga, Sandoa
*''
Cigaritis brunnea''
(Jackson, 1966)
*''
Cigaritis buchanani''
(Rothschild, 1921)
*''
Cigaritis cilissa''
Lederer, 1861
*''
Cigaritis collinsi''
(Kielland, 1980)
*''
Cigaritis crustaria''
(Holland, 1890)
*''
Cigaritis cynica''
(Riley, 1921)
*''
Cigaritis dufranei''
(Bouyer, 1991)
*''
Cigaritis elima''
(Moore, 1877) India and Ceylon
*''
Cigaritis ella''
(Hewitson, 1865)
*''
Cigaritis elwesi''
Evans, 925
Year 925 ( CMXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By date January – June
* January 5 – Gabellus becomes the first abbot of the monsastery of San Martín de Albelda in the Spanish kingdom ...
/small> northwestern India
*'' Cigaritis epargyros'' (Eversmann, 1854) Arabia, Afghanistan and northern China
*'' Cigaritis evansii'' (Tytler, 1915) Assam
*'' Cigaritis gilletti'' (Riley, 1925)
*'' Cigaritis greeni'' (Heron, 1896) Ceylon
*'' Cigaritis hassoni'' (Bouyer, 2003)
*'' Cigaritis homeyeri'' (Dewitz, 1886)
*'' Cigaritis ictis'' (Hewitson, 1865) Ceylon and India
*'' Cigaritis iza'' (Hewitson, 1865)
*'' Cigaritis junodi'' (D'Abrera, 1980) Transvaal
*'' Cigaritis kutu'' (Corbet, 1940) Malaysia
*'' Cigaritis larseni'' (Bouyer, 2012) Cameroon to Ghana
*'' Cigaritis learmondi'' (Tytler, 1940) Burma and Thailand
*'' Cigaritis leechi'' (Swinhoe, 1912) western China
*'' Cigaritis lilacinus'' (Moore, 1884) Burma
*'' Cigaritis lohita'' (Horsfield, 829
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Year 829 ( DCCCXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* October 2 – Emperor Michael II dies after an 8-year reign in Constantinople, and is succeeded by his ...
*'' Cigaritis lunulifera'' (Moore, 1879) India
*'' Cigaritis lutosus'' (Plötz, 1880) Ashanti region, southeastern Ghana
*'' Cigaritis maxima'' Staudinger, 1901
*'' Cigaritis maximus'' (Elwes, 893 Burma, Thailand and Laos
*'' Cigaritis meghamalaiensis'' Sadasivan & Naicker, 2023 Western Ghats (southern India)
** Synonym ''Cigaritis conjuncta'' Kunte & Sengupta, 2024887
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Year 887 ( DCCCLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* November 17 – East Frankish magnates revolt against the inept emperor Charles III (the Fat) in an assembly ...
Ceylon
*'' Cigaritis nyassae'' (Butler, 1884)
*'' Cigaritis overlaeti'' (Bouyer, 1998)
*'' Cigaritis phanes'' (Trimen, 1873)
*'' Cigaritis pinheyi'' (Heath, 1983)
*'' Cigaritis rukma'' (de Nicéville, 889
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Year 889 ( DCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* Guy III, duke of Spoleto, defeats the Lombard king Berengar I at the Trebbia River, and is acclaimed as king ...
Sikkim and Bhutan
*'' Cigaritis rukmini'' (de Nicéville, 889
__NOTOC__
Year 889 ( DCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* Guy III, duke of Spoleto, defeats the Lombard king Berengar I at the Trebbia River, and is acclaimed as king ...
Sikkim and Assam
*'' Cigaritis schistacea'' (Moore, 881
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Year 881 ( DCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place Europe
* February 12 – King Charles the Fat, the third son of the late Louis the German, is crowned as Holy Roman Emper ...
India and Ceylon
*'' Cigaritis scotti'' (Gabriel, 1954)
*'' Cigaritis seliga'' (Fruhstorfer, 1912) Malaysia, southern Burma, Thailand and Borneo
*''Cigaritis shaba
''Cigaritis shaba'' is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo (the last ambiguou ...
'' (Bouyer, 1991)
*'' Cigaritis siphax'' (Lucas, 1849) Algeria and Tunisia
*'' Cigaritis somalina'' (Butler, 886
__NOTOC__
Year 886 (Roman numerals, DCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place Byzantine Empire
* March – A wide-ranging conspiracy against Emperor Basil I, led by John Kourkouas (9t ...
*'' Cigaritis syama'' (Horsfield, 829
__NOTOC__
Year 829 ( DCCCXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* October 2 – Emperor Michael II dies after an 8-year reign in Constantinople, and is succeeded by his ...
central and western China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indochina, Thailand, Sumatra, Singapore, Java, Borneo and Philippines
*'' Cigaritis takanonis'' (Matsumura, 1906) Japan
*'' Cigaritis tanganyikae'' (Kielland, 1990)
*'' Cigaritis tavetensis'' (Lathy, 1906)
*'' Cigaritis trifurcata'' (Moore, 1882) northwestern, central and eastern India
*'' Cigaritis trimeni'' (Neave, 1910)
*''Cigaritis victoriae
''Cigaritis victoriae'', the Victoria's bar or Victoria silverline, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in southern and eastern Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and eastern Zimbabwe. The habitat consists of savanna.
Both sexe ...
'' (Butler, 1884)
*'' Cigaritis vixinga'' (Hewitson, 1875) Thailand, Borneo and Sumatra
*'' Cigaritis vulcanus'' (Fabricius, 1775)
*'' Cigaritis zhengweille'' (Huang, 1998) Yunnan (China)
*''Cigaritis zohra
''Cigaritis zohra'', the Donzel's silverline, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Algeria and Morocco.
The larvae feed on ''Coronilla minima'', in the later stages with ''Crematogaster
''Crematogaster'' is an ecological ...
'' Donzel, 1847 Morocco and Algeria
Status unclear:
*'' Cigaritis kuyaniana'' (Matsumura, 1919)
References
External links
"''Cigaritis'' Donzel, 1847"at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
Seitz, A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 69
Lycaenidae genera
Taxa named by Hugues-Fleury Donzel
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