Pilodeudorix diyllus
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Pilodeudorix diyllus, the green-streaked playboy, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria and Cameroon.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
Adults have been recorded feeding from the flowers of .
The larvae feed on . They are attended by ants of the genus Oecophylla.
Subspecies[]
- Pilodeudorix diyllus diyllus (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria: south and the Cross River loop, western Cameroon)
- Pilodeudorix diyllus occidentalis Libert, 2004 (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea)
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Wikispecies has information related to Pilodeudorix diyllus. |
- ^ Pilodeudorix at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Subtribe Deudoricina". Archived from the original on 2015-06-20. Retrieved 2012-06-20.
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Categories:
- Butterflies described in 1878
- Deudorigini
- Butterflies of Africa
- Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson
- Lycaenidae stubs