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Mimacraea gelinia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Lycaenidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Mimacraea

Mimacraea gelinia

Mimacraea gelinia is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Tanzania. The habitat consists of forests.

Adults of subspecies M. g. nguru resemble day-flying geometrid moths of the Scopula genus.

Subspecies

  • Mimacraea gelinia gelinia (Tanzania: north-east to Usambara)
  • Mimacraea gelinia nguru Kielland, 1986 (Tanzania: Nguru mountains)

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