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Hypolycaena nigra (Bethune-Baker, 1914)


Adult morphologyWingspan15
Literature referencesSpecies number (Larsen 2005)455
Page number (Ackery et al. 1995)603
HabitatHabitat preference [1]
WEF:
Centered on the evergreen forest types (including upland evergreen in Ghana and Nimba)
WEF
DistributionGeographical distribution [2]
WWQ:
Found in both the Liberia and Ghana subregions and extending to most of the equatorial forest zone
WWQ

Biology

Flight period:

Ecology

Host plants:

Larvae associated with Pheidole ants

Records


1. ^ Larsen (2010)
2. ^ Larsen (2010)
last modified 2 August 2011




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