Pilodeudorix violetta

Pilodeudorix violetta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Pilodeudorix
Species: P. violetta
Binomial name
Pilodeudorix violetta
(Aurivillius, 1897)[1]
Synonyms
  • Deudorix violetta Aurivillius, 1897

Pilodeudorix violetta, the Violet Diopetes, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, southern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Uele), Uganda and north-western Tanzania.[2]

Adults have been recorded feeding from the flowers of Eupatorium species.

References

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