Species of butterfly
Cigaritis acamas, the tawny silverline, Arab leopard or leopard butterfly, is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly. It is found from North Africa and the Near East to India. The range includes Sudan, Arabia (United Arab Emirates) and Somalia.[2] and it occurs on Cyprus.
The larvae are associated with ants of the genus Crematogaster.
Subspecies
- C. a. acamas (southern Turkey to Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, the Sinai, Egypt, United Arab Emirates and probably northern Arabia)
- C. a. bellatrix (Butler, 1886) (Sudan, southern Arabia, Somalia)
- C. a. divisa (Rothschild, 1915) (Sahara, including Algeria)
- C. a. dueldueli Pfeiffer, 1932
- C. a. hypargyros (Butler, 1886) (eastern Arabia to India)
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