C. meghamalaiensis was described from the
Meghamalai hills, in the southern part of the
Western Ghats, India. It is found to be common around the mountainous Meghamalai region of Tamil Nadu and the nearby
Periyar Tiger Reserve of Kerala. Soon after, individuals from several hundred kilometres further north, in the
Kodagu District ("Coorg") of Karnataka were described as
Cigaritis conjuncta. These authors stated their expectation of a wider distribution across the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot, such as into "Tamil Nadu (Nilgiris) and southern Kerala" (p. 91). When later the two scientific names were treated as the same species in Sadasivan & Sengupta, 2024, the now broadened joint distribution was discussed against other butterflies from the Western Ghats. ==References==