Pentila petreia
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Pentila petreia, the common red pentila, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, central Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin and western Nigeria.[2] The habitat consists of dense forests.
Adults feed from extrafloral nectaries.
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- ^ Pentila at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
- ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Subtribe Pentilina". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2012-09-24.
Categories:
- Butterflies described in 1874
- Poritiinae
- Butterflies of Africa
- Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson
- Poritiinae stubs