Pilodeudorix violetta
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| Species: | P. violetta
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| Pilodeudorix violetta (Aurivillius, 1897)[1]
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Pilodeudorix violetta, the violet diopetes, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, southern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Uele), Uganda and north-western Tanzania.[2]
Adults have been recorded feeding from the flowers of Eupatorium species.
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- ^ 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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- Butterflies described in 1897
- Deudorigini
- Butterflies of Africa
- Taxa named by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius
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