Lachnocnema luna

Druce’s Large Woolly Legs
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Lachnocnema
Species: L. luna
Binomial name
Lachnocnema luna
Druce, 1910[1]

The Druce’s Large Woolly Legs (Lachnocnema luna) is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Ghana (the Volta Region), eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the north-eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and north-western Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Larvae have been recorded on Cassia alata. They fed on the secretions of immature ant-attended membracids and on membracids and jassids.

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