Pilodeudorix mera

Updated on Dec 25, 2024

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

Similar Bebearia sophus, Liphyrini, Acraea serena, Charaxes pleione, Charaxes eudoxus

Pilodeudorix mera, the streaked fairy playboy, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of primary forests.

Subspecies

Pilodeudorix mera mera (Ivory Coast, Nigeria: east and the Cross River loop, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, northern Angola, western Uganda, north-western Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Uele, Tshopo, Equateur, Kinshasa, Sankuru and Lualaba)

Pilodeudorix mera kinumbensis (Dufrane, 1945) (eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, north-western Tanzania)

References

Pilodeudorix mera Wikipedia

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