- Source: Lipaphnaeus leonina
Lipaphnaeus leonina, the orange silver speckle, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of forests.
Subspecies
L. l. leonina (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia)
L. l. bitje (Druce, 1910) (eastern Nigeria, southern Cameroon, Congo, Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Equateur, Uele, Sankuru and Lualaba)
L. l. ivoirensis Stempffer, 1966 (eastern Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Togo, western Nigeria)
L. l. paradoxa (Schultze, 1908) (north-western Cameroon, Uganda, north-western Tanzania)
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Lipaphnaeus leonina
- Lipaphnaeus
- List of butterflies of Uganda
- List of butterflies of Nigeria
- List of butterflies of Ivory Coast
- List of butterflies of Liberia
- List of butterflies of Togo
- List of butterflies of Guinea
- List of butterflies of Tanzania
- List of butterflies of Ghana
