Cigaritis

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:

(Afro-Asian)

C. abri – C. acamas – C. allardi – C. apelles – C. apuleia – C. avriko – C. baghirmii – C. bergeri – C. brunnea – C. cilissa – C. collinsi – C. conjuncta – C. costalis – C. crustaria – C. cynica – C. dhofarina – C. ducarmei – C. dufranei – C. ella – C. epargyros – C. gardineri – C. hassoni – C. homeyeri – C. iza – C. larseni – C. maxima – C. menelas – C. modestus – C. montana – C. mozambica – C. myrmecophila – C. nairobiensis – C. namaquus – C. natalensis – C. nilus – C. noellae – C. nyassae – C. overlaeti – C. phanes – C. piersoni – C. pinheyi – C. scotti – C. shaba – C. siphax – C. somalina – C. stewarti – C. tanganyikae – C. tavetensis – C. trimeni – C. victoriae – C. zohra

(Oriental)

C. abnormis – C. elima – C. elwesi – C. evansii – C. gigas – C. ictis – C. kutu – C. kuyaniana – C. learmondi – C. leechi – C. lilacinus – C. lohita – C. masaeae – C. maximus – C. miyamotoi – C. negrita – C. nipalicus – C. nubilus – C. rukma – C. rukmini – C. schistacea – C. seliga – C. syama – C. takanonis – C. vixinga – C. vulcanus – C. zhengweilie

Name

Cigaritis Donzel, 1847.

Type species: Cigaritis zohra Donzel, 1847, by selection of Scudder, 1875: 142.

Synonymy

Cigaritis Donzel, 1847: 528.
Zerythis Lucas, 1849: pl. Lép 1. Type species: Zerythis syphax Lucas, 1849 [sic], by monotypy.
Spindasis Wallengren, 1857: 45. Type species: Spindasis masilikazi Wallengren, 1857, by monotypy. Synonymy in Heath et al., 2002: vii, 90.
Spindasis Wallengren, 1858: 81. Repetition.
Apharitis Riley, 1925: 70, 78. Type species: Polyommatus epargyros Eversmann, 1854, by original designation. Synonymy in Hesselbarth et al., 1995.

References

Bouyer, T. 1991. Note sur les Spindasis du Zaïre avec description de deux nouvelles espèces: Spindasis shaba n.sp. et Spindasis dufranei n.sp. Etude sur les Lycaenidae: note n°1. (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Lambillionea 91(3): 219–224. ResearchGate Reference page.
Bouyer, T. 2011. Description d'une nouvelle espèce africaine de Cigaritis Donzel, 1847 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Entomologia Africana 16(1): 35–38. Reference page.
Bouyer, T. 2012. Description d'une nouvelle espèce africaine de Cigaritis Donzel, 1847 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Entomologia Africana 17(1): 2–4. Reference page.
Bouyer, T. 2017d: Descriptions de nouvelles espèces africaines de Cigaritis Donzel, 1847 et note synonymique (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) Etude sur les Lycaenidae : note n° 20. Entomologia africana 22(1): 2–10. Reference page.
Bouyer, T. 2021b. Description de deux nouvelles espèces de Cigaritis Donzel, 1847 du Kenya (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Etude sur les Lycaenidae : note n° 22. Entomologia Africana 26(2): 33-38. Reference page.
Collins, S.C., Congdon, T.C.E., Henning, G.A., Larsen, T.B. & Williams, M.C. 2014. A review of d’Abrera’s Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region – Part III (second edition), 2009 – Part 3 (Theclinae, Polyommatinae and Riodinidae). Metamorphosis 25(2): 109–122. PDF. Reference page.
Donzel, H. 1847. Description de Lépidoptères nouveaux. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (2)5: 525–530. BHL. Reference page.
Eliot, J.N. 1973. The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative arrangement. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 28(6): 371-505; 36 Pls.; 162 Text-figs. Reference page.
Heath, A., Newport, M.A., & Hancock, D. 2002. The butterflies of Zambia. African Butterfly Research Institute and The Lepidopterists’ Society of Africa. i–xvii, 1–137. Reference page.
Hemming, A.F. 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1–509. Reference page.
Hesselbarth, G., van Oorschot, H. & Wagener, S. 1995. Die Tagfalter der Türkei unter Berücksichtigung der angrenzenden Länder. Allgemeiner Teil, spezieller Teil. Band 1. Hesperiidae, Papilionidae, Pieridae, Lycaenidae. Selbstverlag Sigbert Wagener, Hemdener Weg 19, D 46399 Bocholt, Germany: 1–754. Reference page.
Hsu, Y.F. & Liang, J.Y. 2020. On systematic status of Spindasis syama Horsfield, [1829] in Taiwan and the Philippines (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Aphnaeini). Zootaxa 4763(4): 485–500. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4763.4.2. {{ . Reference page.
Kunte, K., Sengupta, A., Pawar, U. & Nawge, V. 2024. A new species of silverline butterfly, Cigaritis Donzel, 1847 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), from the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot, India. Zootaxa 5399(1): 085–095. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5399.1.7. . Reference page.
Lucas, H. 1849. Exploration Scientifique de l’Algerie pendant les Annees 1840, 1841, 1842. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux Articules (3) Insectes [v], 1-527. Paris. BHL Reference page.
Riley, N.D. 1925. The Species Usually Referred to the Genus Cigaritis Boisd. [Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae]. Novitates Zoologicae 32: 70–95, 13 figs. BHL. Reference page.
Scudder, S.H. 1875. Historical sketch of the generic names proposed for butterflies. Proc. Amer. Soc. Arts Sci. Boston 10: 91–293.Reference page.
Seizmair, M. 2017a. Wiederfunde einiger bemerkenswerter Lycaeniden- und Hesperiiden-Arten auf der Arabischen Halbinsel mit der Neubeschreibung von Cigaritis dhofarina spec.nov. (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae et Hesperiidae). Atalanta 48: 254-260. Reference page.
Tshikolovets, V.V., 2011. Butterflies of Europe & the Mediterranean Area Tshikolovets Publications, Pardubice, Czech Republic. 544pp. ISBN 9788090490000. Reference page.
Wallengren, H.D.J. 1857. Lepidoptera Rhopalocera, in Terra Caffrorum annis 1838–1845 collecta a J.A. Wahlberg. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar (n.s.) 2(4): 55 pp. BHL Reference page.
Wallengren, H.D.J. 1858. Nova Genera Lepidopterorum. Översigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandlingar 15: 75–84. Archive. Reference page.
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Links

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

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