Pseudaletis leonis
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| Species: | P. leonis
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| Pseudaletis leonis (Staudinger, 1888)[1]
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Pseudaletis leonis, the West African fantasy, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and western Nigeria.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
Adults are thought to be mimics of the day-flying moth Podomachla apicalis.
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- ^ "Pseudaletis Druce, 1888" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Tribe Aphnaeini (part 1)". Archived from the original on 2014-08-19. Retrieved 2012-06-26.
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- Butterflies described in 1888
- Pseudaletis
- Butterflies of Africa
- Taxa named by Otto Staudinger
- Aphnaeinae stubs