Cigaritis avriko

Cigaritis avriko
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Cigaritis
Species:	C. avriko
Binomial name
	Cigaritis avriko; (Karsch, 1893)
Synonyms
	Aphnaeus avriko Karsch, 1893; Spindasis avriko; Spindasis banyoana Bethune-Baker, 1926;

Cigaritis avriko, the fine silverline, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Guinea (the Nimba Range), Sierra Leone (the Loma Mountains), southern Burkina Faso, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda, western Kenya and Ethiopia.^[2] The habitat consists of savanna.

The larvae are tended by ants of the genus Pheidole, which transport them into galls on Acacia drepanolobium in which they live. The larvae seem to feed on both ant secretions and on the lining of the galls.

References

^ Cigaritis at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Tribe Aphnaeini (part 2)

External links

Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 69 f

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[funet-1] Cigaritis at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[ATBUT-2] Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Tribe Aphnaeini (part 2)

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