Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Lycaenidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Myrina | |
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Similar Myrina silenus, Myrina, Deudorix dinochares, Charaxes viola, Deudorix antalus | ||
Myrina subornata, the West African fig-tree blue or small fig blue, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Sudan and possibly Kenya. The habitat consists of savanna.
Adults suck the juices of small fermenting fruits.
The larvae feed on Ficus species. The larvae are tended by the ant species Pheidole rotundata.
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