Biology:Anthene larydas

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Short description: Species of butterfly

Anthene larydas
Spotted ciliate blue (Anthene larydas).jpg
Spotted ciliate blue (Anthene larydas) male underside Nyamebe Bepo.jpg
both in Ghana
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Anthene
Species:
A. larydas
Binomial name
Anthene larydas
(Cramer, 1780)[2]
Synonyms
  • Papilio larydas Cramer, 1780
  • Anthene (Anthene) larydas
  • Hesperia perides Fabricius, 1793

Anthene larydas, the spotted hairtail or common ciliate blue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and western Kenya.[3] The habitat consists of forests and Guinea savanna.

Adult males mud-puddle and are also attracted to sand soaked by urine as well as by human sweat.

The larvae feed on Acacia farnesiana, Afzelia species, Albizia gummifera, Albizia zygia, Dichrostachys glomerata and Hypericum species. They are associated with the ant species Pheidole aurivillii race kasaiensis, Camponotus akwapimensis var. poultoni and Crematogaster striatula var. horati.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q4771672 entry