Iolaus fontainei
| Iolaus fontainei | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Iolaus |
| Species: | I. fontainei |
| Binomial name | |
| Iolaus fontainei (Stempffer, 1956)[1] | |
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Iolaus fontainei, Fontaine’s Sapphire, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Ghana (the Volta Region), Nigeria (the Cross River loop), Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa and Uele), Uganda and north-western Tanzania.[2]
The larvae feed on Tapinanthus erectotruncatus and Tapinanthus dependens.
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