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Cigaritis nilus

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Short description: Species of butterfly

Cigaritis nilus
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Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Cigaritis
Species:
C. nilus
Binomial name
Cigaritis nilus
(Hewitson, 1865)[1]
Synonyms
  • Spindasis kaduglii Aphnaeus nilus
  • Hewitson, 1865
  • Bethune-Baker, 1916 Spindasis subaurea f. sabulosa
  • Aphnaeus subaureus Hawker-Smith, 1929
  • Apharitis nilus Grose-Smith, 1898

Cigaritis Nilus, the Saharan Silverline, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, northern and eastern Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, southern Sudan, Uganda, and northern Kenya.[2] The habitat consists of sub-deserts and deserts, the Sahel, Sudan savanna, and Guinea savanna.

References

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