Deudorix caliginosa
Species of butterfly
Deudorix caliginosa | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Deudorix |
Species: | D. caliginosa |
Binomial name | |
Deudorix caliginosa Lathy, 1903[1] | |
Synonyms | |
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Deudorix caliginosa, the dark brown playboy, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, southern Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, São Tomé and Príncipe, the Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique and eastern Zimbabwe.[2] The butterfly's habitat is forest.
Adults have been recorded feeding from flowers on bushes and both sexes mud-puddle.
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