Phlyaria
| Phlyaria | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Phlyaria Karsch, 1895 |
| Species: | P. cyara |
| Binomial name | |
| Phlyaria cyara (Hewitson, 1876)[1] | |
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Phlyaria is a genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It consists of only one species, Phlyaria cyara, the Pied Blue, which is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
The larvae feed on the young shoots of Albizia gummifera.
Subspecies
- Phlyaria cyara cyara (Nigeria: Cross River loop, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo: Mongala, Uele, Tshopo, Equateur, Sankuru, Lualaba)
- Phlyaria cyara stactalla Karsch, 1895 (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western Nigeria)
- Phlyaria cyara tenuimarginata (Grünberg, 1908) (Uganda, western and central Kenya, Democratic Republic of Congo: east to Ituri and North Kivu, western Tanzania)
References
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- ↑ Phlyaria, Site of Markku Savela
- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Tribe Polyommatini (part 1)
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