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