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 <small>Riley, 1925</small> and Spindasis <small>Wallengren, 1857</small>. The latter were synonymised with Cigaritis by Heath et al., 2002, and this synonymy is followed in recent works.
Species
Listed alphabetically:
- Cigaritis abnormis <small>(Moore, [1884])</small>
- Cigaritis acamas <small>(Klug, 1834)</small>
- Cigaritis allardi <small>Oberthür, 1909</small>
- Cigaritis apelles <small>(Oberthür, 1878)</small>
- Cigaritis apuleia <small>(Hulstaert, 1924)</small>
- Cigaritis arooni <small>(Murayama & Kimura, 1990)</small> northern Thailand
- Cigaritis avriko <small>(Karsch, 1893)</small>
- Cigaritis baghirmii <small>(Stempffer, 1946)</small>
- Cigaritis bergeri <small>(Bouyer, 2003)</small> DRC, Katanga, Sandoa
- Cigaritis brunnea <small>(Jackson, 1966)</small>
- Cigaritis buchanani <small>(Rothschild, 1921)</small>
- Cigaritis cilissa <small>Lederer, 1861</small>
- Cigaritis collinsi <small>(Kielland, 1980)</small>
- Cigaritis crustaria <small>(Holland, 1890)</small>
- Cigaritis cynica <small>(Riley, 1921)</small>
- Cigaritis dhofarina <small>Seizmair, 2017</small>
- Cigaritis ducarmei <small>(Bouyer, 2008)</small> Congo
- Cigaritis dufranei <small>(Bouyer, 1991)</small> Zaïre
- Cigaritis elima <small>(Moore, 1877)</small> India and Sri Lanka
- Cigaritis ella <small>(Hewitson, 1865)</small>
- Cigaritis elwesi <small>Evans, [1925]</small> northwestern India
- Cigaritis epargyros <small>(Eversmann, 1854)</small> Arabia, Afghanistan and northern China
- Cigaritis evansii <small>(Tytler, 1915)</small> India ( Assam)
- Cigaritis gilletti <small>(Riley, 1925)</small>
- Cigaritis greeni <small>(Heron, 1896)</small> Sri Lanka
- Cigaritis hassoni <small>(Bouyer, 2003)</small>
- Cigaritis homeyeri <small>(Dewitz, 1886)</small>
- Cigaritis ictis <small>(Hewitson, 1865)</small> Sri Lanka and India
- Cigaritis iza <small>(Hewitson, 1865)</small>
- Cigaritis junodi <small>(D'Abrera, 1980)</small> South Africa
- Cigaritis kutu <small>(Corbet, 1940)</small> Malaysia
- Cigaritis kuyaniana <small>(Matsumura, 1919)</small> Taiwan
- Cigaritis larseni <small>(Bouyer, 2012)</small> Cameroon to Ghana
- Cigaritis learmondi <small>(Tytler, 1940)</small> Myanmar and Thailand
- Cigaritis leechi <small>(Swinhoe, 1912)</small> China
- Cigaritis lilacinus <small>(Moore, 1884)</small> Myanmar
- Cigaritis lohita <small>(Horsfield, [1829])</small>
- Cigaritis lunulifera <small>(Moore, 1879)</small> India
- Cigaritis lutosus <small>(Plötz, 1880)</small> Ghana
- Cigaritis maximus <small>(Elwes, [1893])</small> Myanmar, Thailand and Laos
- Cigaritis meghamalaiensis <small>Sadasivan & Naicker, 2023</small> Southern India (Western Ghats)
: [= Cigaritis conjuncta ].
- Cigaritis menelas <small>(Druce, 1907)</small>
- Cigaritis mishmisensis <small>(South, 1913)</small> Northeastern India (Mishimi Hills)
- Cigaritis modestus <small>(Trimen, 1891)</small>
- Cigaritis montana <small>(Joicey & Talbot, 1924)</small>
- Cigaritis mozambica <small>(Bertolini, 1850)</small>
- Cigaritis myrmecophila <small>Dumont, 1922</small>
- Cigaritis nairobiensis <small>(Sharpe, 1904)</small>
- Cigaritis namaquus <small>(Trimen, 1874)</small>
- Cigaritis natalensis <small>(Westwood, 1851)</small>
- Cigaritis nilus <small>(Hewitson, 1865)</small>
- Cigaritis nipalicus <small>(Moore, 1884)</small> India and Nepal
- Cigaritis nubilus <small>(Moore, [1887])</small> Sri Lanka
- Cigaritis nyassae <small>(Butler, 1884)</small>
- Cigaritis overlaeti <small>(Bouyer, 1998)</small>
- Cigaritis phanes <small>(Trimen, 1873)</small>
- Cigaritis pinheyi <small>(Heath, 1983)</small>
- Cigaritis rukma <small>(de Nicéville, [1889])</small> India (Sikkim), Bhutan
- Cigaritis rukmini <small>(de Nicéville, [1889])</small> India (Sikkim and Assam)
- Cigaritis schistacea <small>(Moore, [1881])</small> India and Sri Lanka
- Cigaritis scotti <small>(Gabriel, 1954)</small>
- Cigaritis seliga <small>(Fruhstorfer, 1912)</small> Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia
- Cigaritis shaba <small>(Bouyer, 1991)</small>
- Cigaritis siphax <small>(Lucas, 1849)</small> Algeria and Tunisia
- Cigaritis somalina <small>(Butler, [1886])</small>
- Cigaritis syama <small>(Horsfield, [1829])</small> China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore and Philippines
- Cigaritis takanonis <small>(Matsumura, 1906)</small> Japan
- Cigaritis tanganyikae <small>(Kielland, 1990)</small>
- Cigaritis tavetensis <small>(Lathy, 1906)</small>
- Cigaritis trifurcata <small>(Moore, 1882)</small> India
- Cigaritis trimeni <small>(Neave, 1910)</small>
- Cigaritis uighurica <small>Kemal & Koçak, 2005</small> (Replacement name for Cigaritis maxima <small>Staudinger, 1901</small>, junior homonym of Cigaritis maximus <small>(Elwes, [1893]</small>)
- Cigaritis victoriae <small>(Butler, 1884)</small>
- Cigaritis vixinga <small>(Hewitson, 1875)</small> Thailand, Indonesia
- Cigaritis vulcanus <small>(Fabricius, 1775)</small>
- Cigaritis zhengweille <small>(Huang, 1998)</small> Yunnan (China)
- Cigaritis zohra <small>Donzel, 1847</small> Morocco and Algeria
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