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Phlyaria

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Lycaenidae

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Species
  
P. cyara

Phlyaria

Similar
  
Tuxentius carana, Zintha hintza, Liphyrini

Phlyaria is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. It is monotypic consisting of only one species, Phlyaria cyara, the pied blue, which is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. The habitat consists of forests.

The larvae feed on the young shoots of Albizia gummifera.

Subspecies

  • Phlyaria cyara cyara (Nigeria: Cross River loop, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Mongala, Uele, Tshopo, Equateur, Sankuru, Lualaba)
  • Phlyaria cyara stactalla Karsch, 1895 (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western Nigeria)
  • Phlyaria cyara tenuimarginata (Grünberg, 1908) (Uganda, western and central Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo: east to Ituri and North Kivu, western Tanzania)

    • References

    Phlyaria Wikipedia
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