Oboronia punctatus

Oboronia punctatus
Oboronia punctatus figure 15
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Oboronia
Species:	O. punctatus
Binomial name
Oboronia punctatus (Dewitz, 1879)[1]
Synonyms
Plebeius punctatus Dewitz, 1879 Lycaena elorina Staudinger, 1888 Oboronia punctatus f. jacksoni Stempffer, 1942 ? staudingeri Hemming, 1960

Oboronia punctatus, the Common Ginger White, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria (south and the Cross River loop), Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, western Uganda and north-western Tanzania.^[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Adults feed on the flowers of the larval host plant.

The larvae feed on Costus dubius and Costus afer. They are associated with the ant species Pheidole aurivillii race kasaiensis and Pheidole rotundata.

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