Cigaritis avriko

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. 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.

Cigaritis avriko

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. 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.