''Torbenia larseni'', the Larsen's glasswing, 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 southern
Nigeria
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and western
Cameroon
Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R ...
.
[Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Subtribe Pentilina]
/ref> The habitat consists of forests. The species was named after Torben Bjørn Larsen.
References
Butterflies described in 1969
Poritiinae
Butterflies of Africa
Taxa named by Henri Stempffer
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