Cigaritis

Cigaritis
C. syama in Nepal
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Cigaritis Donzel, 1847
Synonyms
Zerythis Lucas, 1849 Spindasis Wallengren, 1857 Spindasis Wallengren, 1858 Apharitis Riley, 1925

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.

Species

• 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, 1965)
• 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, [1925] 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 kuyaniana Matsumura Taiwan
• Cigaritis learmondi (Tytler, 1940) Burma and Thailand
• Cigaritis leechi Swinhoe, 1912 western China
• Cigaritis lilacinus (Moore, 1884) Burma
• Cigaritis lohita (Horsfield, [1829])
• Cigaritis lunulifera Moore India
• Cigaritis lutosa Plötz, 1880 Ashanti region, southeastern Ghana
• Cigaritis maxima Staudinger, 1901
• Cigaritis maximus (Elwes, [1893]) Burma, Thailand and Laos
• Cigaritis menelas (Druce, 1907)
• Cigaritis mishmisensis South, 1913 Mishimi Hills (northeastern India)
• 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 western India and Nepal
• Cigaritis nubilus Moore Ceylon
• Cigaritis nyassae (Butler, 1884)
• Cigaritis overlaeti (Bouyer, 1998)
• Cigaritis phanes (Trimen, 1873)
• Cigaritis pinheyi (Heath, 1983)
• Cigaritis rukma (de Nicéville, [1889]) Sikkim and Bhutan
• Cigaritis rukmini de Nicéville, [1889] Sikkim and Assam
• Cigaritis schistacea Moore, 1881 India and Ceylon
• Cigaritis scotti (Gabriel, 1954)
• Cigaritis seliga (Fruhstorfer, 1912) Malaysia, southern Burma, Thailand and Borneo
• Cigaritis shaba (Bouyer, 1991)
• Cigaritis siphax (Lucas, 1849) Algeria and Tunisia
• Cigaritis somalina (Butler, 1886)
• Cigaritis syama (Horsfield, [1829]) or Cigaritis syma (Horsfield, 1829) 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 (Butler, 1884)
• Cigaritis vixinga Hewitson, 1875 Thailand, Borneo and Sumatra
• Cigaritis vulcanus (Fabricius, 1775)
• Cigaritis zhengweille Yunnan (China)
• Cigaritis zohra Donzel, 1847 Morocco and Algeria

Further reading

• French Wikipedia has a list of species and their distribution at Cigaritis

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