Misplaced Pages

Cigaritis syama

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
(Redirected from Spindasis syama) Species of butterfly

Club silverline
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Cigaritis
Species: C. syama
Binomial name
Cigaritis syama
(Horsfield, )
Synonyms
  • Amblypodia syama Horsfield,
  • Spindasis syama (Horsfield, )

Cigaritis syama, the club silverline, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in South-East Asia.

The wingspan is 27–32 mm.

The larvae feed on Psidium guajava and Dioscorea batatus.

Subspecies

The subspecies of Cigaritis syama found in India are-

  • Cigaritis syama peguanus (Moore, 1884)

References

  1. "Cigaritis Donzel, 1847" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. "Spindasis syama Horsfield, 1829 – Club Silverline". Retrieved 26 August 2017.
Taxon identifiers
Cigaritis syama


Stub icon

This Lycaenidae-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: