Mimeresia libentina
Mimeresia libentina | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Mimeresia |
Species: | M. libentina
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Binomial name | |
Mimeresia libentina | |
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Mimeresia libentina, the common harlequin, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
![Mimeresia libentina 2011-11-26 Niaouli uns.jpg](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Mimeresia_libentina_2011-11-26_Niaouli_uns.jpg/200px-Mimeresia_libentina_2011-11-26_Niaouli_uns.jpg)
Adults feed on nectar from extrafloral nectaries.
Subspecies[]
- Mimeresia libentina libentina (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, southern Nigeria)
- Mimeresia libentina isabellae (Schultze, 1917) (Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea: Bioko and Rio Muni, Gabon)
References[]
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Wikispecies has information related to Mimeresia libentina. |
- ^ Mimeresia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
- ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Subtribe Mimacraeina". Archived from the original on 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2012-10-02.
Categories:
- Butterflies described in 1866
- Poritiinae
- Butterflies of Africa
- Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson
- Poritiinae stubs