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Fairy Hairstreak
Charles J. Sharp (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Fairy Hairstreak

Hypolycaena lebona
BirdNET IDBN07012
Taxon groupInsecta
iNat observations50
Image sourceWikimedia
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Description wikipedia

Hypolycaena lebona, the fairy hairstreak, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Tanzania. The habitat consists of forests. Adults mud-puddle and have also been recorded imbibing moisture from moist wood ash. The larvae have been recorded feeding on ewo (a word in the Yoruba language). They are associated with ants of the genus Pheidole, including P. aurivillii race kasaiensis. The larvae are deep green in colour.

Translated Descriptions (2)

nl wikipedia
Hypolycaena lebona is een vlinder uit de familie van de Lycaenidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1865 door Hewitson.
sv wikipedia
Hypolycaena lebona är en fjärilsart som beskrevs av William Chapman Hewitson 1865. Hypolycaena lebona ingår i släktet Hypolycaena och familjen juvelvingar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

External Identifiers

iNaturalist#341566
GBIF1932231