Lipaphnaeus leonina

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Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Lycaenidae Rank Species		Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Lipaphnaeus

Similar Azanus isis, Pentila pauli, Cerautola crowleyi, Hypolycaena hatita, Appias phaola

Lipaphnaeus leonina, the orange silver speckle, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of forests.

Subspecies

L. l. leonina (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia)

L. l. bitje (Druce, 1910) (eastern Nigeria, southern Cameroon, Congo, Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Equateur, Uele, Sankuru and Lualaba)

L. l. ivoirensis Stempffer, 1966 (eastern Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Togo, western Nigeria)

L. l. paradoxa (Schultze, 1908) (north-western Cameroon, Uganda, north-western Tanzania)

References

Lipaphnaeus leonina Wikipedia

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