Pseudaletis leonis
West African fantasy | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Pseudaletis |
Species: | P. leonis |
Binomial name | |
Pseudaletis leonis (Staudinger, 1888)[1] | |
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Pseudaletis leonis, the West African fantasy, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and western Nigeria.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
Adults are thought to be mimics of the day-flying moth Nyctemera apicalis.
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- ↑ Pseudaletis, Site of Markku Savela
- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Tribe Aphnaeini (part 1)
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