Epitolina dispar
| Epitolina dispar | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Epitolina |
| Species: | E. dispar |
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| Epitolina dispar (Kirby, 1887)[1] | |
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Epitolina dispar, the Common Epitolina, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria (south and the Cross River loop), Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Katako-Kombe and Sankuru), Uganda and north-western Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of primary and secondary forests.
Adults have been recorded feeding from the secretions of ant-attended coccids.
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