Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Lycaenidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Pilodeudorix | |
Similar Tetrarhanis, Liphyrini, Ornipholidotos, Liptena, Aphnaeini | ||
Pilodeudorix violetta, the violet diopetes, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, southern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Uele), Uganda and north-western Tanzania.
Adults have been recorded feeding from the flowers of Eupatorium species.
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