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Deudorix kayonza

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Species of butterfly

Deudorix kayonza
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Deudorix
Species: D. kayonza
Binomial name
Deudorix kayonza
Stempffer, 1956
Synonyms
  • Deudorix (Virachola) kayonza

Deudorix kayonza, the false coffee playboy, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda and Zambia. The habitat consists of forests.

Adults feed from the flowers of Eupatorium odorata.

References

  1. "Deudorix Hewitson, 1863" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Subtribe Deudoricina". Archived from the original on 2015-06-20. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
Taxon identifiers
Deudorix kayonza


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