Cigaritis acamas

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.

Tawny silverline
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Cigaritis
Species:	C. acamas
Binomial name
Cigaritis acamas (Klug, 1834)[1]
Synonyms
Lycaena acamas Klug, 1834 Apharitis acamas (Klug, 1834) Spindasis bellatrix Butler, 1886 Spindasis acamas divisa Rothschild, 1915 Spindasis hypargyros Butler, 1886 Apharitis acama aegyptiaca Riley, 1925 Apharitis acama cypriaca Riley, 1925

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)