Eresiomera bicolor, the western pearly, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and Nigeria.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
Eresiomera bicolor | |
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In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Eresiomera |
Species: | E. bicolor
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Binomial name | |
Eresiomera bicolor | |
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Adults feed on flower nectar from extrafloral nectaries.
References
edit- ^ Eresiomera at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Subtribe Liptenina". Archived from the original on 2014-03-08. Retrieved 2012-10-10.
- Media related to Eresiomera bicolor at Wikimedia Commons
- Data related to Eresiomera bicolor at Wikispecies