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Cigaritis myrmecophila

Wikipedia Abstract

Cigaritis myrmecophila is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found from Algeria through Libya, Egypt and Jordan to Arabia and south-eastern Iran. The larvae feed on Calligonum comosum. They live in the nests of ants of the Crematogaster genus.
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Infraspecies

Cigaritis myrmecophila farsica
Cigaritis myrmecophila myrmecophila

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Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0