Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Lycaenidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Hypolycaena | |
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Hypolycaena pachalica, the eastern hairstreak, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1888. It is found in Uganda, eastern and northern Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ituri, Mahagi-Port, Kivu and Semliki), Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, south-western Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The habitat consists of savanna and open forests.
Adults are attracted to flowers and males occasionally come to damp patches.
The larvae feed on Combretum constrictum and Talinum portulacifolium.
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