Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Lycaenidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Euliphyra | |
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Similar Megalopalpus zymna, Appias phaola, Pentila pauli, Hypolycaena hatita, Mylothris rhodope | ||
Euliphyra leucyania, the lesser moth butterfly, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, southern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Sankuru), western Uganda and north-western Tanzania. The habitat consists of forests.
Adults have a weak, moth-like flight.
The larvae live in the nests of the ant species Oecophylla longinoda (weaver ant).
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