Cigaritis mozambica

Cigaritis mozambica, the Mozambique bar or Mozambique silverline, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae.

In South Africa it is found from the coast of KwaZulu-Natal to the Drakensberg, then to Eswatini, the Free State, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and North West provinces.

Adults are on wing year-round with peaks in late summer.

[2] The larvae feed on Sphenostylis angustifolia.

They are associated with ants of the genus Crematogaster.