Cerautola ceraunia
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Cerautola |
| Species: | C. ceraunia |
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| Cerautola ceraunia (Hewitson, 1873)[1] | |
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Cerautola ceraunia, the Silvery Epitola, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria (south and the Cross River loop), Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and north-western Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
Adults have been recorded in February.
The larvae are associated with the ant species Crematogaster buchneri.
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