Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Lycaenidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Euliphyra | |
Euliphyra mirifica, the African moth butterfly, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, northern Angola and the western two-thirds of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The habitat consists of forests.
Adults have been recorded in June and July.
The larvae live in the nests of Oecophylla smaragdina race longinoda and feed on ant regurgitations.
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