Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Lycaenidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Mimeresia | |
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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.
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References
Mimeresia libentina Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA