Cigaritis ella
| Cigaritis ella | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Cigaritis |
| Species: | C. ella |
| Binomial name | |
| Cigaritis ella (Hewitson, [1865])[1] | |
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Ella’s Bar (Cigaritis ella) is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. It is found from South Africa to the coast of eastern Kenya. In South Africa it is found from the East Cape along the coast to KwaZulu-Natal, then inland to Swaziland, the Orange Free State, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, the Limpopo Province, the North West Province and the North Cape.
The wingspan is 21–24 mm for males and 25–30 mm for females. Adults are on wing year round with peaks from August to October and from March to July.[2]
The larvae feed on Ximenia caffra. The larvae hide in crevices and under the bark of their host plant.
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