Pilodeudorix camerona

Pilodeudorix camerona
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Pilodeudorix
Species: P. camerona
Binomial name
Pilodeudorix camerona
(Plötz, 1880)[1]
Synonyms
  • Sithon camerona Plötz, 1880
  • Hypolycaena nobilis Staudinger, 1891
  • Pilodeudorix barbatus Druce, 1891
  • Deudorix (Pilodeudorix) katanga Clench, 1965

Pilodeudorix camerona, the Tufted Green-streaked Playboy, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of savanna.

Adults feed on the flowers of Eupatorium species.

The larvae feed on Pterocarpus esculenta. They are attended to by ants of the Oecophylla genus.

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