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Euliphyra hewitsoni
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Euliphyra
Species:	E. hewitsoni
Binomial name
Euliphyra hewitsoni Aurivillius, 1899

Euliphyra hewitsoni, the western moth butterfly, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, southern Nigeria and Cameroon. The habitat consists of forests.

Adults have a moth-like flight.

The larvae live in the nests of ants of the genus Oecophylla and feed on ant regurgitations and/or ant brood.

The name honours William Chapman Hewitson.

References

1. Euliphyra at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Tribe Liphyrini". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-09-12.

• Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 65 d

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• Butterflies described in 1899
• Miletinae
• Butterflies of Africa
• Taxa named by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius
• Miletinae stubs