Cigaritis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Cigaritis
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Cigaritis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Cigaritis
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, and this synonymy is followed in recent works.
...Cigaritis in languages:
- Chinese
- 席灰蝶屬
- English
- Silverlines
- Japanese
- キマダラルリツバメ属
- Korean
- 쌍꼬리부전나비속
- Thai
- สกุล ผีเสื้อลายขีดเงิน
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Cigaritis abnormis
- Cigaritis acamas
- Cigaritis allardi
- Cigaritis apelles
- Cigaritis brunnea
- Cigaritis cilissa
- Cigaritis crustaria
- Cigaritis elima
- Cigaritis ella
- Cigaritis epargyros
- Cigaritis homeyeri
- Cigaritis ictis
- Cigaritis kutu
- Cigaritis kuyaniana
- Cigaritis larseni
- Cigaritis leechi
- Cigaritis lilacinus
- Cigaritis lohita
- Cigaritis masaeae
- Cigaritis maxima
- Cigaritis maximus
- Cigaritis menelas
- Cigaritis modesta
- Cigaritis montana
- Cigaritis mozambica
- Cigaritis myrmecophila
- Cigaritis namaquus
- Cigaritis natalensis
- Cigaritis negrita
- Cigaritis nilus
- Cigaritis nipalicus
- Cigaritis phanes
- Cigaritis rukmini
- Cigaritis schistacea
- Cigaritis seliga
- Cigaritis siphax
- Cigaritis syama
- Cigaritis takanonis
- Cigaritis tavetensis
- Cigaritis trimeni
- Cigaritis victoriae
- Cigaritis vulcanus
- Cigaritis zohra
- Spindasis collinsi
- Spindasis greeni
- Spindasis kuyanianus
- Spindasis leechi
- Spindasis pinheyi
- Spindasis scotti
- Spindasis vixinga
- Spindasis zhengweilie





























































































































































