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.

Subspecies

• Lipaphnaeus leonina leonina (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia)
• Lipaphnaeus leonina bitje (Druce, 1910) (eastern Nigeria, southern Cameroon, Congo, Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo: Equateur, Uele, Sankuru and Lualaba)
• Lipaphnaeus leonina ivoirensis Stempffer, 1966 (eastern Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Togo, western Nigeria)
• Lipaphnaeus leonina paradoxa (Schultze, 1908) (north-western Cameroon, Uganda, north-western Tanzania)

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