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Aphnaeus orcas
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Aphnaeus
Species:	A. orcas
Binomial name
Aphnaeus orcas (Drury, 1782)
Synonyms
Papilio orcas Drury, 1782 Aphnaeus guttatus Plötz, 1880 Aphnaeus hollandi Butler, 1902 Aphnaeus rattrayi Sharpe, 1904 Aphnaeus orcas var. heliodorus Schultze, 1916 Aphnaeus orcas f. overlaeti Berger, 1953 Aphnaeus orcas f. fontainei Berger, 1953 Aphnaeus orcas f. paupera Stempffer, 1954

Aphnaeus orcas, the common highflier or common silver spot, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria (south and the Cross River loop), Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Mongala, Uele, Tshopo, Tshuapa, Equateur, Sankuru and Lualaba), Uganda, western and south-western Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of forests.

Both sexes feed from flowers and males mud-puddle.

The larvae feed on Alchornea cordifolia, Albizia, Allophylus, Blighia, Loranthus, Macaranga, Olea, Paullinia, Rhus, Scolopia, Scutia and Uncaria species. They are attended by ants of the family Formicidae.

References

1. Aphnaeus at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Tribe Aphnaeini (part 4)". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-07-05.

External links

• Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 69 c

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• Taxa named by Dru Drury
• Aphnaeinae stubs