Mimeresia libentina

Updated on Dec 26, 2024

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

Similar Megalopalpus zymna, Telipna acraea, Tuxentius carana, Pentila pauli, Epitola posthumus

Mimeresia libentina, the common harlequin, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. The habitat consists of forests.

Adults feed on nectar from extrafloral nectaries.

Subspecies

Mimeresia libentina libentina (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, southern Nigeria)

Mimeresia libentina isabellae (Schultze, 1917) (Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea: Bioko and Rio Muni, Gabon)

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