''Pilodeudorix zela'', the blue-edged playboy, is a
butterfly
Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...
in the family
Lycaenidae
Lycaenidae is the second-largest family (biology), family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of ...
. It is found in
Senegal
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(
Basse Casamance),
Guinea-Bissau
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,
Guinea
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,
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered to the southeast by Liberia and by Guinea to the north. Sierra Leone's land area is . It has a tropical climate and envi ...
,
Liberia
Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to Guinea–Liberia border, its north, Ivory Coast to Ivory Coast–Lib ...
,
Ivory Coast
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,
Ghana
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,
Nigeria
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(south and the
Cross River loop),
Cameroon
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, the
Republic of the Congo
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, the
Central African Republic
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, the
Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Republic of the Congo), is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is t ...
(
Kinshasa
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,
Lualaba and
Tanganyika),
Uganda
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, north-western
Tanzania
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and northern
Zambia
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.
The habitat consists of forests, including dry forests.
References
External links
''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 66''b''
Butterflies described in 1869
Deudorigini
Butterflies of Africa
Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson
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