Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Lycaenidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Lachnocnema | |
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Similar Megalopalpus zymna, Liphyrini, Lachnocnema, Aslauga, Miletinae | ||
Lachnocnema luna, the Druce's large woolly legs, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Ghana (the Volta Region), eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the north-eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and north-western Tanzania. The habitat consists of forests.
Larvae have been recorded on Cassia alata. They fed on the secretions of immature ant-attended membracids and on membracids and jassids.
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