Cigaritis gigas Saito & Seki, 2008
Cigaritis gigas ♂ Up. Cigaritis gigas ♂ Un. Cigaritis gigas ♀ Up. Cigaritis gigas ♀ Un.
♂, 2000.05.20. Tamdao, Vinh Phuc, Vietnam.
Holotype (photo by K.Saito)		 ♀, 2004.09.--. Cao Bang, Vietnam.
Paratype (photo by K.Saito)
Cigaritis gigas ♂ Up. Cigaritis gigas ♂ Un. Cigaritis gigas ♂ genitalia Cigaritis gigas ♂ genitalia
♂, 2007.05.24. Tamdao, Vinh Phuc, Vietnam.
Paratype (photo by K.Saito)		 ♂ genitalia, Vinh Phuc, Vietnam. (photo by K.Saito)

ON : Cigaritis gigas Saito & Seki, 2008
OD : Butterflies (Teinopalpus) 48: 8–11, figs.4a(HT,♂), b(PT,♂), c(PT,♀).
TL : Tamdao, Vinh Phuc, N.Vietnam. (in coll. K.Saito)
Distribution : N.Vietnam, China. 		Cigaritis gigas map
Type Materials Information

Holotype ♂, 20.May.2000. Tamdao, Vinh Phuc, N.Vietnam. (in coll. K.Saito)
Prartypes : 3♂, Tamdao ; 3♂ 2♀, Cao Bang. (in coll. Y.Seki ; K.Saito)

Records taken from Literature

[ VIETNAM ]
Cigaritis gigas: Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 56, pl.16, figs.61a♂,61b♂(Un),61c♀. (N: Cao Bang; Vinh Phuc)

Notes
Literature

Saito, K. & Seki, Y, 2008. Two new species of Cigaritis (Spindasis) Donzel, 1847 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from Vietnam and Laos.
Butterflies (Teinopalpus), 48: 8–12.

Zhang, J, Cong, Q, Shen, J, Song, L. & Grishin, N.V, 2023. Butterfly classification and species discovery using genomics.
The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey, 11(3): 1–93.

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A Check list of Butterflies in Indo-China, Chiefly from THAILAND, LAOS & VIETNAM. Copyright © 1996- Y.Inayoshi.