Cigaritis apelles

Species of butterfly

Cigaritis apelles

Seitz Fauna Africana Taf69 (line f)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Cigaritis
Species:	C. apelles
Binomial name
*Cigaritis apelles* (Oberthür, 1878)^[1]
Synonyms
Aphnaeus apelles Oberthür, 1878 Spindasis apelles

Cigaritis apelles, the rusty bar, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Uganda, along the coast of Kenya and in Tanzania, Malawi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Sankuru and Lualaba), Mozambique and South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal).^[2] The habitat consists of savanna, bordering forests.

References

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^ Cigaritis at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Tribe Aphnaeini (part 2)". Archived from the original on 2014-10-15. Retrieved 2012-06-28.