Cigaritis

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, and this synonymy is followed in recent works.

Species
Listed alphabetically:
 * Cigaritis abnormis (Moore, [1884])
 * 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 dufranei (Bouyer, 1991)
 * Cigaritis elima (Moore, 1877) India and Ceylon
 * Cigaritis ella (Hewitson, 1865)
 * Cigaritis elwesi Evans, [1925] northwestern India
 * Cigaritis epargyros (Eversmann, 1854) Arabia, Afghanistan and northern China
 * Cigaritis evansii (Tytler, 1915) Assam
 * Cigaritis gilletti (Riley, 1925)
 * Cigaritis greeni (Heron, 1896) Ceylon
 * Cigaritis hassoni (Bouyer, 2003)
 * Cigaritis homeyeri (Dewitz, 1886)
 * Cigaritis ictis (Hewitson, 1865) Ceylon and India
 * Cigaritis iza (Hewitson, 1865)
 * Cigaritis junodi (D'Abrera, 1980) Transvaal
 * Cigaritis kutu (Corbet, 1940) Malaysia
 * Cigaritis larseni (Bouyer, 2012) Cameroon to Ghana
 * Cigaritis learmondi (Tytler, 1940) Burma and Thailand
 * Cigaritis leechi (Swinhoe, 1912) western China
 * Cigaritis lilacinus (Moore, 1884) Burma
 * Cigaritis lohita (Horsfield, [1829])
 * Cigaritis lunulifera (Moore, 1879) India
 * Cigaritis lutosus (Plötz, 1880) Ashanti region, southeastern Ghana
 * Cigaritis maxima Staudinger, 1901
 * Cigaritis maximus (Elwes, [1893]) Burma, Thailand and Laos
 * Cigaritis meghamalaiensis Sadasivan & Naicker, 2023 Western Ghats (southern India)
 * Synonym Cigaritis conjuncta Kunte & Sengupta, 2024
 * Cigaritis menelas (Druce, 1907)
 * Cigaritis mishmisensis (South, 1913) Mishimi Hills (northeastern India)
 * 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) western India and Nepal
 * Cigaritis nubilus (Moore, [1887]) Ceylon
 * Cigaritis nyassae (Butler, 1884)
 * Cigaritis overlaeti (Bouyer, 1998)
 * Cigaritis phanes (Trimen, 1873)
 * Cigaritis pinheyi (Heath, 1983)
 * Cigaritis rukma (de Nicéville, [1889]) Sikkim and Bhutan
 * Cigaritis rukmini (de Nicéville, [1889]) Sikkim and Assam
 * Cigaritis schistacea (Moore, [1881]) India and Ceylon
 * Cigaritis scotti (Gabriel, 1954)
 * Cigaritis seliga (Fruhstorfer, 1912) Malaysia, southern Burma, Thailand and Borneo
 * Cigaritis shaba (Bouyer, 1991)
 * Cigaritis siphax (Lucas, 1849) Algeria and Tunisia
 * Cigaritis somalina (Butler, [1886])
 * Cigaritis syama (Horsfield, [1829]) central and western China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indochina, Thailand, Sumatra, Singapore, Java, Borneo and Philippines
 * Cigaritis takanonis (Matsumura, 1906) Japan
 * Cigaritis tanganyikae (Kielland, 1990)
 * Cigaritis tavetensis (Lathy, 1906)
 * Cigaritis trifurcata (Moore, 1882) northwestern, central and eastern India
 * Cigaritis trimeni (Neave, 1910)
 * Cigaritis victoriae (Butler, 1884)
 * Cigaritis vixinga (Hewitson, 1875) Thailand, Borneo and Sumatra
 * Cigaritis vulcanus (Fabricius, 1775)
 * Cigaritis zhengweille (Huang, 1998) Yunnan (China)
 * Cigaritis zohra Donzel, 1847 Morocco and Algeria

Status unclear:
 * Cigaritis kuyaniana (Matsumura, 1919)