199. Cigaritis syama latipicta (The Club Silverline)

Number: 199

Family: Lycaeniidae
Sub-Family: Thecliinae

Species: Cigaritis syama latipicta (Fruhstorfer, [1912])

Common name(s): The Club Silverline

Photography location: Tam Dao foothills (Vinh Phuc Prov.)

Eight species of Cigaritis are known from Vietnam: C. lohita (2 subsp.), C. syama (2 subsp.), C. seliga, C. vulcanus, C. vixinga, C. gigas, C. leechi, C. evansii. In Tonkin (North of the country), lohita and syama are the most frequently encountered.
Cigaritis syama latipicta is replaced further south by C. syama peguanus.

Cigaritis syama latipicta, Tam Dao, mid-June 2016