Biology:Hypolycaena liara

Short description: Species of butterfly

Hypolycaena liara
Seitz Fauna AfricanaTaf 67 (line a)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Hypolycaena
Species:	H. liara
Binomial name
Hypolycaena liara H. H. Druce, 1890
Synonyms
Hypolycaena symmacha Hulstaert, 1924 Hypolycaena bitjeana Bethune-Baker, 1926

Hypolycaena liara, the black-patch hairstreak, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. The species was first described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1890. It is found in Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of forests and secondary growth.

The larvae feed on Vitex species.

Subspecies

• Hypolycaena liara liara (eastern Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria: south and the Cross River loop, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea: Bioko, southern Sudan, Uganda, Somalia, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Mongala, Uele, Kivu, Tshopo, Kinshasa, Sankuru, Lomani, Lualuba and Tanganika)
• Hypolycaena liara plana Talbot, 1935 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Shaba, south-western Tanzania, Zambia: Lusaka and northwards)

External links

• Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 67 a

Wikidata ☰ Q5959803 entry