Cigaritis acamas (Klug, 1834)
       
Synonyms
[ORIG] Lycaena acamas Klug, 1834. Symb. Phys., Ins. 4: [40], pl. 40, fig. 7.  
    TL: Syria.
[JS] Cigaritis acamas var. obscurata Staudinger, 1901. In: Staudinger & Rebel, Cat. Lepid. pal. Faunengeb.: 76.  
    TL: Hadjin, Taurus (Turkey).
[JS] Apharitis acamas ssp. egyptiaca Riley, 1925. Novit. Zool. 32: 88.  
    TL: Mokkatam Hills (Egypt).
[JS] Apharitis acamas ssp. cypriaca Riley, 1925. Novit. Zool. 32: 89.  
    TL: Episkopis (Cyprus).  
[JS] Cigaritis acamas ssp. dueldueli Pfeiffer, 1932. Mitt. Munch. Entomol. Ges. 22(1): 38.  
    TL: Amanus Mts, Düldül Dagi (Turkey).
Notes  
(1) List of the subspecies not found in the Western Palearctic: Cigaritis acamas bellatrix (Butler, 1886) ; Cigaritis acamas hypargyros (Butler, 1886) ; Cigaritis acamas chitralensis (Riley, 1925) ; …  
Bibliography  
Klug J. C. F. 1834.
In: Hemprick & Ehrenberg, Symbolae physicae. Icones et descriptiones Insectorum quae ex intenere Africam Borealem et Asiam occidentalem. Decas Quarta. Berlin: ex-officina Academica (Ed.). pp. [39]-[41], pl. 31-40. (url)
  
  New taxon: Lycaena acamas.  
       
Pfeiffer E. 1932.
In: Osthelder & Pfeiffer, Lepidopteren-Fauna von Marasch in türkisch Nordsyrien.
Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft (e.V.). 22(1): 38-88, pl. (url)
  
  New taxon: Cigaritis acamas dueldueli.  
       
Riley N. D. 1925.
The species usually referred to the genus Cigaritis Boisd. [Lepidoptera : Lycaenidae].
Novitates zoologicae : a journal of zoology in connection with the Tring Museum 32: 70-95. (url)
  
  New taxa: Apharitis acamas egyptiaca, Apharitis acamas cypriaca.  
       
Staudinger O. 1901.
I. Theil: Famil. Papilionidae-Hepialidae. In: Staudinger & Rebel, Catalog der Lepidopteren des palaearctischen Faunengebietes. Berlin: R. Friedländer & Sohn (Ed.). pp. i-xxxii, 1-411. (url)
  
  New taxon: Cigaritis acamas obscurata.  
       
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