Baliochila singularis
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| Baliochila singularis Stempffer and Bennett, 1953[1]
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Baliochila singularis, Lannin’s Buff, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Botswana and Zimbabwe.[2] The habitat consists of bushveld and Brachystegia woodland.
There are two distinct seasonal forms. The wet-season form (f. martyni) and the dry-season form. Adults have been recorded near a Heteropyxis natalensis tree, where they were imbibing the secretions of membracids that were feeding on the tree.
The larvae feed on algae (Cyanophyta) growing on trees.
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