''Cigaritis rukma'' or silver-red silverline is a
butterfly in the family
Lycaenidae. It was described by
Lionel de Niceville __TOC__
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*Lionel (given name) Places
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in 1889. It is found in the
Indomalayan realm
The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia.
Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indi ...
(Burma, Thailand, and Laos).
[ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde'' 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175.]
Subspecies
*''C. r. rukma'' Sikkim, Bhutan, Thailand
*''C. r. sophia''
(D'Abrera, 1993) Yunnan
References
External links
''Cigaritis''at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
Cigaritis
Butterflies described in 1889
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