Cigaritis victoriae: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Cigaritis
- Species
- Cigaritis victoriae
- Scientific Name
- Cigaritis victoriae
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Cigaritis victoriae
Cigaritis victoriae, the Victoria's bar or Victoria silverline, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in southern and eastern Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and eastern Zimbabwe. The habitat consists of savanna.
Both sexes feed from flowers. Adults are probably on wing year-round, but are most common in spring and autumn.
The larvae feed on Acacia, Cassia and Mundulea species, as well as Ximenia americana. They are attended by ants.
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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