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Eresina fontainei

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Species of butterfly

Eresina fontainei
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Eresina
Species: E. fontainei
Binomial name
Eresina fontainei
Stempffer, 1956

Eresina fontainei, the Fontaine's eresina, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Sankuru), Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania and possibly Nigeria. Its habitat consists of dense, primary forests.

References

  1. Eresina at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
  2. Williams, Mark C. "Subtribe Liptenina". Afrotropical Butterflies and Skippers. Archived from the original on 2018-06-27. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
Taxon identifiers
Eresina fontainei


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