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,, 2002. The butterflies of Zambia. African Butterfly Research Institute and The Lepidopterists’ Society of Africa. i-xvii, 1-137. and this synonymy is followed in recent works., 2015. Phylogeny of the Aphnaeinae: myrmecophilous African butterflies with carnivorous and herbivorous life histories. Systematic entomology 40(1): 169–182.
Species Listed alphabetically: Cigaritis abnormis (Moore, ) Cigaritis acamas (Klug, 1834) Cigaritis allardi Oberthür, 1909 Cigaritis apelles (Oberthür, 1878) Cigaritis apuleia (Hulstaert, 1924) Cigaritis arooni (Murayama & Kimura, 1990) northern Thailand Cigaritis avriko (Karsch, 1893) Cigaritis baghirmii (Stempffer, 1946) Cigaritis bergeri (Bouyer, 2003) DRC, Katanga, Sandoa Cigaritis brunnea (Jackson, 1966) Cigaritis buchanani (Rothschild, 1921) Cigaritis cilissa Lederer, 1861 Cigaritis collinsi (Kielland, 1980) Cigaritis crustaria (Holland, 1890) Cigaritis cynica (Riley, 1921) Cigaritis dhofarina Seizmair, 2017 Cigaritis ducarmei (Bouyer, 2008) Congo Cigaritis dufranei (Bouyer, 1991) Zaïre Cigaritis elima (Moore, 1877) India and Sri Lanka Cigaritis ella (Hewitson, 1865) Cigaritis elwesi Evans, northwestern India Cigaritis epargyros (Eversmann, 1854) Arabia, Afghanistan and northern China Cigaritis evansii (Tytler, 1915) India ( Assam) Cigaritis gilletti (Riley, 1925) Cigaritis greeni (Heron, 1896) Sri Lanka Cigaritis hassoni (Bouyer, 2003) Cigaritis homeyeri (Dewitz, 1886) Cigaritis ictis (Hewitson, 1865) Sri Lanka and India Cigaritis iza (Hewitson, 1865) Cigaritis junodi (D'Abrera, 1980) South Africa Cigaritis kutu (Corbet, 1940) Malaysia Cigaritis kuyaniana (Matsumura, 1919) Taiwan Cigaritis larseni (Bouyer, 2012) Cameroon to Ghana Cigaritis learmondi (Tytler, 1940) Myanmar and Thailand Cigaritis leechi (Swinhoe, 1912) China Cigaritis lilacinus (Moore, 1884) Myanmar Cigaritis lohita (Horsfield, ) Cigaritis lunulifera (Moore, 1879) India Cigaritis lutosus (Plötz, 1880) Ghana Cigaritis maximus (Elwes, ) Myanmar, Thailand and Laos Cigaritis meghamalaiensis Sadasivan & Naicker, 2023 Southern India (Western Ghats) [= Cigaritis conjuncta ]. Cigaritis menelas (Druce, 1907) Cigaritis mishmisensis (South, 1913) Northeastern India (Mishimi Hills) Cigaritis modestus (Trimen, 1891) Cigaritis montana (Joicey & Talbot, 1924) Cigaritis mozambica (Bertolini, 1850) Cigaritis myrmecophila Dumont, 1922 Cigaritis nairobiensis (Sharpe, 1904) Cigaritis namaquus (Trimen, 1874) Cigaritis natalensis (Westwood, 1851) Cigaritis nilus (Hewitson, 1865) Cigaritis nipalicus (Moore, 1884) India and Nepal Cigaritis nubilus (Moore, ) Sri Lanka Cigaritis nyassae (Butler, 1884) Cigaritis overlaeti (Bouyer, 1998) Cigaritis phanes (Trimen, 1873) Cigaritis pinheyi (Heath, 1983) Cigaritis rukma (de Nicéville, ) India (Sikkim), Bhutan Cigaritis rukmini (de Nicéville, ) India (Sikkim and Assam) Cigaritis schistacea (Moore, ) India and Sri Lanka Cigaritis scotti (Gabriel, 1954) Cigaritis seliga (Fruhstorfer, 1912) Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia Cigaritis shaba (Bouyer, 1991) Cigaritis siphax (Lucas, 1849) Algeria and Tunisia Cigaritis somalina (Butler, ) Cigaritis syama (Horsfield, ) China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore and Philippines Cigaritis takanonis (Matsumura, 1906) Japan Cigaritis tanganyikae (Kielland, 1990) Cigaritis tavetensis (Lathy, 1906) Cigaritis trifurcata (Moore, 1882) India Cigaritis trimeni (Neave, 1910) Cigaritis uighurica Kemal & Koçak, 2005 (Replacement name for Cigaritis maxima Staudinger, 1901, junior homonym of Cigaritis maximus (Elwes, ) Cigaritis victoriae (Butler, 1884) Cigaritis vixinga (Hewitson, 1875) Thailand, Indonesia Cigaritis vulcanus (Fabricius, 1775) Cigaritis zhengweille (Huang, 1998) Yunnan (China) Cigaritis zohra Donzel, 1847 Morocco and Algeria
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"Cigaritis Donzel, 1847" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 69