West African fantasy | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Pseudaletis |
Species: | P. leonis
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Binomial name | |
Pseudaletis leonis (
Staudinger, 1888)
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Synonyms | |
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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.