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Lipaphnaeus leonina

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Lipaphnaeus leonina
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L. leonina
Binomial name
Lipaphnaeus leonina
(Sharpe, 1890)[1]
Synonyms
  • Zeritis leonina Sharpe, 1890
  • Zeritis bicolor Sharpe, 1891
  • Spindasis leonina bitje Druce, 1910
  • Spindasis paradoxa Schultze, 1908

Lipaphnaeus leonina, the orange silver speckle, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Subspecies

  • L. l. leonina (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia)
  • L. l. bitje (Druce, 1910) (eastern Nigeria, southern Cameroon, Congo, Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Equateur, Uele, Sankuru and Lualaba)
  • L. l. ivoirensis Stempffer, 1966 (eastern Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Togo, western Nigeria)
  • L. l. paradoxa (Schultze, 1908) (north-western Cameroon, Uganda, north-western Tanzania)

References

  1. ^ Lipaphnaeus at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Tribe Aphnaeini (part 1)