Cigaritis nilus

Cigaritis nilus
Cigaritis nilus figures 11,12
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Cigaritis
Species:	C. nilus
Binomial name
Cigaritis nilus (Hewitson, 1865)[1]
Synonyms
Aphnaeus nilus Hewitson, 1865 Apharitis nilus Aphnaeus subaureus Grose-Smith, 1898 Spindasis kaduglii Bethune-Baker, 1916 Spindasis subaurea f. sabulosa Hawker-Smith, 1929

Cigaritis nilus, the Saharan Silverline, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Senegal, 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.

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