Mimeresia moreelsi is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It lives in forests of Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Mimeresia |
| Species: | M. moreelsi
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| Mimeresia moreelsi (Aurivillius, 1901)[1]
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Subspecies
edit- Mimeresia moreelsi moreelsi (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Equateur and Tshuapa)
- Mimeresia moreelsi purpurea (Hawker-Smith, 1933) (Uganda: west to the Bwamba Valley, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Uele, Ituri, Tshopo and possibly Shaba)
- Mimeresia moreelsi tessmanni (Grünberg, 1910) (Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon)
References
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- ^ Mimeresia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
- ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Subtribe Mimacraeina". Archived from the original on 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2012-10-02.