Pentila picena
Appearance
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Pentila |
Species: | P. picena
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Pentila picena, the western cream pentila, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria and possibly Cameroon (the Obudu area).[2] The habitat consists of forests.
Adults feed on extrafloral nectaries on tendrils, including bamboo nectaries.
Subspecies
[edit]- Pentila picena picena (Ivory Coast, Ghana)
- Pentila picena catori Bethune-Baker, 1906 (central Nigeria)
- Pentila picena cydaria (Grose-Smith, 1898) (Ghana, southern and western Nigeria)
References
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- ^ Pentila at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
- ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Subtribe Pentilina". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2012-09-24.