Biology:Hypolycaena antifaunus
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Short description: Species of butterfly
| Large fairy hairstreak | |
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| both male H. a. antifaunus Bobiri Forest, Ghana | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Hypolycaena |
| Species: | H. antifaunus
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| Binomial name | |
| Hypolycaena antifaunus (Westwood, 1851)[1]
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Hypolycaena antifaunus, the large fairy hairstreak, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae which is native to the African tropics and subtropics.
Range
It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.[2]
Habitat and habits
The habitat consists of primary forests. Adult males mud-puddle.
Subspecies
- Hypolycaena antifaunus antifaunus — Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria: south and the Cross River loop, Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, north-western Zambia
- Hypolycaena antifaunus latimacula (Joicey & Talbot, 1921) — Democratic Republic of the Congo: Kivu, Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hypolycaena antifaunus. |
- ↑ Hypolycaena at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Subtribe Hypolycaenina
Wikidata ☰ Q13316799 entry
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