Hypomyrina nomion

Hypomyrina nomion
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Hypomyrina
Species: H. nomion
Binomial name
Hypomyrina nomion
(Staudinger, 1891)[1]
Synonyms
  • Myrina nomion Staudinger, 1891
  • Deudorix acares Karsch, 1893

Hypomyrina nomion, the Dark Orange Playboy, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, southern Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, southern Sudan and Uganda.[2] The habitat consists of the transition zone between savanna and forest.

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