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Oxylides faunus
Kakum National Park, Ghana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Oxylides
Species:	O. faunus
Binomial name
Oxylides faunus (Drury, 1773)
Synonyms
Papilio faunus Drury, 1773 Hesperia hesiodus Fabricius, 1793

Oxylides faunus, the common false head, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria and Cameroon. The habitat consists of primary forests.

Both sexes are attracted to flowers.

Images

External images from Royal Museum of Central Africa.

Subspecies

• Oxylides faunus faunus (Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria)
• Oxylides faunus camerunica Libert, 2004 (Nigeria: Cross River loop, Cameroon)

References

1. Oxylides at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Subtribe Oxylidina

External links

• Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 68 a

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