''Pilodeudorix mera'', the streaked fairy playboy, is a
butterfly in the family
Lycaenidae. It is found in
Ivory Coast
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,
Nigeria,
Cameroon,
Gabon, the
Republic of the Congo
The Republic of the Congo (french: République du Congo, ln, Republíki ya Kongó), also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country located in the western coast of Central Africa to the w ...
,
Angola, the
Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Uganda,
Rwanda
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,
Tanzania and
Zambia.
The habitat consists of
primary forests
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.
Images External images
from Royal Museum of Central Africa.
Subspecies
*''Pilodeudorix mera mera'' (Ivory Coast, Nigeria: east and the Cross River loop, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, northern Angola, western Uganda, north-western Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Uele, Tshopo, Equateur, Kinshasa, Sankuru and Lualaba)
*''Pilodeudorix mera kinumbensis''
(Dufrane, 1945) (eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, north-western Tanzania)
References
External links
''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 65''h''
Butterflies described in 1873
Deudorigini
Butterflies of Africa
Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson
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