Tuxentius carana

Forest pied Pierrot
male in Ghana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Tuxentius
Species:	T. carana
Binomial name
Tuxentius carana (Hewitson, 1876)[1]
Synonyms
Lycaena carana Hewitson, 1876 Cupido kontu Karsch, 1893

Tuxentius carana, the forest pied Pierrot, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic and the DRC.^[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Tuxentius carana kontu

Adult males mud-puddle.

Subspecies[]

• Tuxentius carana carana – Nigeria: Cross River loop, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, northern Angola, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Tuxentius carana kontu (Karsch, 1893) – Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western Nigeria

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