Cigaritis acamas resting on Echinops adenocaulos, Mount Carmel, Israel.

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Divisio: Eulepidoptera
Sectio: Ditrysia
Subsectio: Apoditrysia
Clade: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Aphnaeinae
Genus: Cigaritis
Species: Cigaritis acamas
Subspecies: (9) [per Savela, M.]
C. a. acamas – C. a. bellatrix – C. a. chitralensis – C. a. cypriaca – C. a. divisa – C. a. dueldueli – C. a. egyptiaca – C. a. gilletti – C. a. hypargyros – C. a. obscurata

Name

Cigaritis acamas Klug, [1834]).

Type locality: “Syria et Arabia felici”.

Lectotype: ♀ lectotype designated by Larsen, 1983: 377; see Nekrutenko, 2000: 198.

Synonymy

  • Lycaena acamas Klug, [1834]: (140) pl. 40. figs 7-9.
  • Zeritis acanms (Klug); Westwood, [1852]: 501.
  • Cigarites acamas [sic] (Klug); Lederer, 1857: 27, (part).
  • Aphnaeus acamas (Klug); Hewitson, [1869]: 62; Kirby, [1871]: 404.
  • Apharitis acamas (Klug); Ackery et al., 1995; D'Abrera, 2009: 702.
  • Cigaritis acamas (Klug); Heath et al., 2002; Williams, 2008; Savela, consulted 10.iii.2015.

References

  • D'Abrera, B., 2009. Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region, second edition, Part 3, Theclinae, Polyommatinae, Riodinidae. Hill House, Melbourne, London. 260pp. Reference page. 
  • Ackery, P.R., Smith, C.R., Vane-Wright, R.I. 1995. Carcasson's African Butterflies: An annotated Catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London: i-xi, 1-803. ISBN 978-0-643-05561-2 Reference page. 
  • Heath, A., Newport, M.A., & Hancock, D. 2002. The butterflies of Zambia. African Butterfly Research Institute and The Lepidopterists’ Society of Africa. i–xvii, 1–137. Reference page. 
  • Hewitson, W.C. 1863–1878. Illustrations of diurnal Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae. London, van Vorst, x + 229 pp, 107 pls. Text, plates. Reference page. 
  • Kirby, W.F. 1871. A synonymic catalogue of the diurnal lepidoptera. Van Voorst, London, 8vo, 690pp. BHL. ibid. 1877 Supplement. BHL Reference page. 
  • Klug, J. C. F., 1829-1845. Insects. In Ehrenberg, C. G., Symbolae physicae et descriptiones insectorum… Hemprich et Ehrenberg, Berlin, unpaginated letterpress, 50 pls. Web. Reference page. 
  • Lederer, J. 1857. Ueber die Lycaeinden-Gattungen der europäischen Fauna . Wiener entomologische Monatschrift 1: 25–32. BHL Reference page. 
  • Nekrutenko, Y., 2000. A catalogue of the type specimens of Palaearctic Riodinidae and Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) deposited in the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Nota lepidopterologica 23 (3/4): 192–352. BHL. Reference page. 
  • Westwood, J.O. [1851]. In Doubleday, E. & Westwood, J. O., 1850–1852: The genera of diurnal Lepidoptera Vol.2. pp.251–534, pls.31–80 + suppl.pl. London. text, plates. Reference page. 
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