Alaena caissa
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Alaena caissa is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Uganda and Tanzania.[2] Its habitat consists of open, rocky areas.
Subspecies[]
- Alaena caissa caissa (northern Tanzania)
- Alaena caissa kagera Talbot, 1935 (Tanzania: north-west to the Kagera and Bukoba Districts, Uganda: open areas west of Lake Victoria)
References[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alaena caissa. |
Wikispecies has information related to Alaena caissa. |
- ^ Alaena at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
- ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Subtribe Pentilina". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2012-09-21.
Categories:
- Butterflies described in 1894
- Alaena
- Butterflies of Africa
- Poritiinae stubs