Lipaphnaeus leonina

Lipaphnaeus leonina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Lipaphnaeus
Species: L. leonina
Binomial name
Lipaphnaeus leonina
(Sharpe, 1890)[1]
Synonyms
  • Zeritis leonina Sharpe, 1890
  • Zeritis bicolor Sharpe, 1891
  • Spindasis leonina bitje Druce, 1910
  • Spindasis paradoxa Schultze, 1908

Lipaphnaeus leonina, the Orange Silver Speckle, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

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