Pseudaletis agrippina

Pseudaletis agrippina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Pseudaletis
Species: P. agrippina
Binomial name
Pseudaletis agrippina
Druce, 1888[1]
Synonyms
  • Sithon tricolor Staudinger, 1891
  • Pseudaletis tricolor
  • Pseudaletis ugandae Riley, 1928

Pseudaletis agrippina, the Agrippina's fantasy, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania.[2] Its habitat consists of forests.

Adults mimic day-flying moths of the genus Scopula.

Subspecies

  • Pseudaletis agrippina agrippina (Ghana: Volta Region, Togo, Nigeria: south and the Cross River loop, Cameroon, Angola, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, north-western Tanzania)
  • Pseudaletis agrippina warrengashi Libert, 2007 (Ivory Coast)
    (named in honour of Haydon Warren-Gash)

References

  1. ↑ "Pseudaletis Druce, 1888" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Tribe Aphnaeini (part 1)


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