Cigaritis acamas: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Cigaritis
- Species
- Cigaritis acamas
- Scientific Name
- Cigaritis acamas
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Cigaritis acamas
Cigaritis acamas, the tawny silverline, Arab leopard or leopard butterfly, is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly. It is found from North Africa and the Near East to India. The range includes Sudan, Arabia (United Arab Emirates) and Somalia. and it occurs on Cyprus.
The larvae are associated with ants of the genus Crematogaster.
...Cigaritis acamas in languages:
- English
- Tawny Silver-line
- Hebrew
- כחליל מנומר
- Turkish
- Şeytancık
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Parent Taxon
Sibling 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


















































