Stempfferia ciconia

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

Stempfferia ciconia, the stork epitola, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. The habitat consists of forests.

Subspecies

Stempfferia ciconia ciconia (Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana)

Stempfferia ciconia camerunica Libert, 1999 (Cameroon)

Stempfferia ciconia mongiro (Jackson, 1968) (eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda)

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