Lipaphnaeus leonina explained

Lipaphnaeus leonina, the orange silver speckle, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia.^[1] The habitat consists of forests.

Subspecies

• L. l. leonina (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia)
• L. l. bitje (Druce, 1910) (eastern Nigeria, southern Cameroon, Congo, Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Equateur, Uele, Sankuru and Lualaba)
• L. l. ivoirensis Stempffer, 1966 (eastern Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Togo, western Nigeria)
• L. l. paradoxa (Schultze, 1908) (north-western Cameroon, Uganda, north-western Tanzania)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Tribe Aphnaeini (part 1) . 2012-06-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140819083848/http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/lycaenidae_aphnaeini_1.doc . 2014-08-19 . dead .