Cigaritis
| Cigaritis | |
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| Cigaritis syama in Nepal | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Aphnaeinae |
| Genus: | Cigaritis Donzel, 1847 |
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Cigaritis is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Its species are found in the Afrotropical realm, the Indomalayan realm 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,[1] and this synonymy is followed in recent works.[2]
Species
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- Cigaritis abnormis (Moore, [1884])
- 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, 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 dhofarina Seizmair, 2017
- Cigaritis ducarmei (Bouyer, 2008) Congo
- Cigaritis dufranei (Bouyer, 1991) Zaïre
- Cigaritis elima (Moore, 1877) India and Sri Lanka
- Cigaritis ella (Hewitson, 1865)
- Cigaritis elwesi Evans, [1925] northwestern India
- Cigaritis epargyros (Eversmann, 1854) Arabia, Afghanistan and northern China
- Cigaritis evansii (Tytler, 1915) India ( Assam)
- Cigaritis gilletti (Riley, 1925)
- Cigaritis greeni (Heron, 1896) Sri Lanka
- Cigaritis hassoni (Bouyer, 2003)
- Cigaritis homeyeri (Dewitz, 1886)
- Cigaritis ictis (Hewitson, 1865) Sri Lanka and India
- Cigaritis iza (Hewitson, 1865)
- Cigaritis junodi (D'Abrera, 1980) South Africa
- Cigaritis kutu (Corbet, 1940) Malaysia
- Cigaritis kuyaniana (Matsumura, 1919) Taiwan
- Cigaritis larseni (Bouyer, 2012) Cameroon to Ghana
- Cigaritis learmondi (Tytler, 1940) Myanmar and Thailand
- Cigaritis leechi (Swinhoe, 1912) China
- Cigaritis lilacinus (Moore, 1884) Myanmar
- Cigaritis lohita (Horsfield, [1829])
- Cigaritis lunulifera (Moore, 1879) India
- Cigaritis lutosus (Plötz, 1880) Ghana
- Cigaritis maximus (Elwes, [1893]) Myanmar, Thailand and Laos
- Cigaritis meghamalaiensis Sadasivan & Naicker, 2023[4] Southern India (Western Ghats)
- [= Cigaritis conjuncta Kunte & Sengupta, 2024, See Sadasivan & Sengupta, 2024].[5]
- Cigaritis menelas (Druce, 1907)
- Cigaritis mishmisensis (South, 1913) Northeastern India (Mishimi Hills)
- Cigaritis modestus (Trimen, 1891)
- Cigaritis montana (Joicey & Talbot, 1924)
- Cigaritis mozambica (Bertolini, 1850)
- Cigaritis myrmecophila Dumont, 1922
- Cigaritis nairobiensis (Sharpe, 1904)
- Cigaritis namaquus (Trimen, 1874)
- Cigaritis natalensis (Westwood, 1851)
- Cigaritis nilus (Hewitson, 1865)
- Cigaritis nipalicus (Moore, 1884) India and Nepal
- Cigaritis nubilus (Moore, [1887]) Sri Lanka
- Cigaritis nyassae (Butler, 1884)
- Cigaritis overlaeti (Bouyer, 1998)
- Cigaritis phanes (Trimen, 1873)
- Cigaritis pinheyi (Heath, 1983)
- Cigaritis rukma (de Nicéville, [1889]) India (Sikkim), Bhutan
- Cigaritis rukmini (de Nicéville, [1889]) India (Sikkim and Assam)
- Cigaritis schistacea (Moore, [1881]) India and Sri Lanka
- Cigaritis scotti (Gabriel, 1954)
- Cigaritis seliga (Fruhstorfer, 1912) Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia
- Cigaritis shaba (Bouyer, 1991)
- Cigaritis siphax (Lucas, 1849) Algeria and Tunisia
- Cigaritis somalina (Butler, [1886])
- Cigaritis syama (Horsfield, [1829]) China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore and Philippines
- Cigaritis takanonis (Matsumura, 1906) Japan
- Cigaritis tanganyikae (Kielland, 1990)
- Cigaritis tavetensis (Lathy, 1906)
- Cigaritis trifurcata (Moore, 1882) India
- Cigaritis trimeni (Neave, 1910)
- Cigaritis uighurica Kemal & Koçak, 2005 (Replacement name for Cigaritis maxima Staudinger, 1901, junior homonym of Cigaritis maximus (Elwes, [1893])
- Cigaritis victoriae (Butler, 1884)
- Cigaritis vixinga (Hewitson, 1875) Thailand, Indonesia
- Cigaritis vulcanus (Fabricius, 1775)
- Cigaritis zhengweille (Huang, 1998) Yunnan (China)
- Cigaritis zohra Donzel, 1847 Morocco and Algeria
References
[edit]- ^ Heath, A., Newport, M.A., & Hancock, D., 2002. The butterflies of Zambia. African Butterfly Research Institute and The Lepidopterists’ Society of Africa. i-xvii, 1-137.
- ^ Boyle, J.H., Kaliszewska, Z.A., Espeland, M., Suderman, T.R., Fleming, J., Heath, A., & Pierce, N.E., 2015. Phylogeny of the Aphnaeinae: myrmecophilous African butterflies with carnivorous and herbivorous life histories. Systematic entomology 40(1): 169–182.
- ^ Savela, Markku. "Cigaritis Donzel, 1847". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 22, 2020.
- ^ S. Ramasamy Kamaya Naicker; Sujitha Prabhakaran Chandrika; Baiju Kochunarayanan; Jebine Jose; Manoj Kripakaran; Rajkumar Chidambaram Palaniappan; Vinayan Padmanabhan Nair; Kalesh Sadasivan (2023). "A new species of Cigaritis Donzel, 1847 (Lycaenidae, Aphnaeinae) from the southern Western Ghats of Peninsular India". Entomon. 48 (4): 553–566. ISSN 0377-9335. Wikidata Q135982957.
- ^ Kalesh Sadasivan; Ashok Sengupta (2024). "The Butterflies of Western Ghats: Their Status and Distribution". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 121 (2): 126–174. doi:10.17087/JBNHS/2024/V121/164523. ISSN 0006-6982. Wikidata Q135989566.
External links
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- "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