Lipaphnaeus leonina
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Lipaphnaeus |
| Species: | L. leonina |
| Binomial name | |
| Lipaphnaeus leonina (Sharpe, 1890)[1] | |
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Lipaphnaeus leonina, the Orange Silver Speckle, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
Subspecies
- Lipaphnaeus leonina leonina (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia)
- Lipaphnaeus leonina bitje (Druce, 1910) (eastern Nigeria, southern Cameroon, Congo, Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo: Equateur, Uele, Sankuru and Lualaba)
- Lipaphnaeus leonina ivoirensis Stempffer, 1966 (eastern Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Togo, western Nigeria)
- Lipaphnaeus leonina paradoxa (Schultze, 1908) (north-western Cameroon, Uganda, north-western Tanzania)
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- ↑ Lipaphnaeus, Site of Markku Savela
- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Tribe Aphnaeini (part 1)
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