Cigaritis avriko

Cigaritis avriko
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Cigaritis
Species: C. avriko
Binomial name
Cigaritis avriko
(Karsch, 1893)[1]
Synonyms
  • Aphnaeus avriko Karsch, 1893
  • Spindasis avriko
  • Spindasis banyoana Bethune-Baker, 1926

Cigaritis avriko, the Fine Silverline, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Guinea (the Nimba Mountains), Sierra Leone (the Loma Mountains), southern Burkina Faso, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda, western Kenya and Ethiopia.[2] The habitat consists of savanna.

The larvae are tended by ants of the Pheidole genus, which transport them into galls on Acacia drepanolobium in which they live. The larvae seem to feed on both ant secretions and on the lining of the galls.

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