Deudorix caliginosa
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Deudorix |
Species: | D. caliginosa
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Deudorix caliginosa | |
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Deudorix caliginosa, the dark brown playboy, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, southern Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, São Tomé and Príncipe, the Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique and eastern Zimbabwe.[2] The butterfly's habitat is forest.
Adults have been recorded feeding from flowers on bushes and both sexes mud-puddle.
References
- ^ "Deudorix Hewitson, 1863" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Subtribe Deudoricina". Archived from the original on 2015-06-20. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
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- Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 66 eError: "Q5266118" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.
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