Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Lycaenidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Euliphyra | |
Euliphyra hewitsoni, the western moth butterfly, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, southern Nigeria and Cameroon. The habitat consists of forests.
Adults have a moth-like flight.
The larvae live in the nests of ants of the Oecophylla genus and feed on ant regurgitations and/or ant brood.
The name honours William Chapman Hewitson.
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