Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Lycaenidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Lachnocnema | |
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Similar Pentila pauli, Lachnocnema, Liphyrini, Megalopalpus zymna, Cerautola crowleyi | ||
Lachnocnema emperamus, the common woolly legs or western woolly legs, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and western and central Kenya. The habitat consists of savanna and degraded forests.
The larvae feed on Psyllidae species.
References
Lachnocnema emperamus Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA