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Pilodeudorix leonina

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Lycaenidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Pilodeudorix

Pilodeudorix leonina, the dark round-spot, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Uele, Ituri and Sankuru) and Uganda. The habitat consists of primary forests and secondary forest with a closed canopy.

Subspecies

  • Pilodeudorix leonina leonina (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana)
  • Pilodeudorix leonina dimitris (d’Abrera, 1980) (Nigeria: south and the Cross River loop, western Cameroon)
  • Pilodeudorix leonina indentata Libert, 2004 (south-eastern Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda)

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    Pilodeudorix leonina Wikipedia
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