Cigaritis apelles

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Aphnaeinae
Genus: Cigaritis
Species: Cigaritis apelles
Subspecies: C. a. apelles – C. a. kiellandi

Name

Cigaritis apelles Oberthür, 1878.

Type locality: Zanzibar.

Holotype: tbc.

Synonymy

• Aphnaeus apelles Oberthür, 1878: 22.
• Spindasis apelles (Oberthür); Dickson & Kroon, 1978; Pringle et al., 1994: 171; Ackery et al., 1995; D'Abrera, 2009: 704.
• Spindasis appeles [sic] (Oberthür); D'Abrera, 1980. [misspelling of species name]
• Cigaritis apelles apelles (Oberthür); Heath et al., 2002; Williams, 2008.

References

• Bouyer, T., 2011: Description de nouveaux Cigaritis (Spindasis) congolais et tanzaniens (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Étude sur les Lycaenidae: note no. 9. Entomologia Africana 16 (1): 35–38.
• Oberthür, C., 1878. Étude sur la faune des lepidoptères de la Cote orientale d'Afrique. Études d'entomologie 3: 48 pp, 4 pls. BHL. Reference page. 

Links

• Savela Funet
• Williams, M.C. 2008. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Cigaritis Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page.