Lipaphnaeus leonina

Lipaphnaeus leonina, the orange silver speckle, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. 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.

Lipaphnaeus leonina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Lycaenidae
Genus:
Lipaphnaeus
Species:
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

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)
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References
  1. Lipaphnaeus at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Tribe Aphnaeini (part 1)". Archived from the original on 2014-08-19. Retrieved 2012-06-28.


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