Oboronia punctatus

Oboronia punctatus
	Figure 15
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Oboronia
Species:	O. punctatus
Binomial name
	Oboronia punctatus; (Dewitz, 1879)
Synonyms
	Plebeius punctatus Dewitz, 1879; Lycaena elorina Staudinger, 1888; Oboronia punctatus f. jacksoni Stempffer, 1942; ? staudingeri Hemming, 1960;

Oboronia punctatus, the common ginger white, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria (south and the Cross River loop), Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda and north-western Tanzania.^[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Adults feed on the flowers of the larval host plant.

The larvae feed on Costus dubius and C. afer. They are associated with the ant species Pheidole aurivillii race kasaiensis and P. rotundata.

References

^ Oboronia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Tribe Polyommatini (part 1)". Archived from the original on 2013-12-13. Retrieved 2012-07-15.

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