Pilodeudorix camerona

Updated on Dec 25, 2024

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

Similar Pentila pauli, Hypolycaena hatita, Tuxentius carana, Iolaus iulus, Iolaus timon

Pilodeudorix camerona, the tufted green-streaked playboy, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia. The habitat consists of savanna.

Adults feed on the flowers of Eupatorium species.

The larvae feed on Pterocarpus esculenta. They are attended to by ants of the Oecophylla genus.

Subspecies

Pilodeudorix camerona camerona (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria: south and the Cross River loop, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, western Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Pilodeudorix camerona katanga (Clench, 1965) (eastern and southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania, Malawi, northern Zambia)

References

Pilodeudorix camerona Wikipedia

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