Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Lycaenidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Pilodeudorix | |
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Similar Paradeudorix eleala, Azanus isis, Axiocerses harpax, Pentila pauli, Ypthima doleta | ||
Pilodeudorix zela, the blue-edged playboy, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Senegal (Basse Casamance), Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria (south and the Cross River loop), Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa, Lualaba and Tanganyika), Uganda, north-western Tanzania and northern Zambia. The habitat consists of forests, including dry forests.
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