Eresina fontainei

Eresina fontainei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Eresina
Species: E. fontainei
Binomial name
Eresina fontainei
Stempffer, 1956[1]

Eresina fontainei, Fontaine’s Eresina, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Sankuru), Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania and possibly Nigeria.[2] The habitat consists of dense, primary forests.

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