Deudorix livia

Deudorix livia, the pomegranate playboy, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Somalia, Djibouti, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Algeria, Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean, including Greece.[2] The habitat consists of savanna, including arid savanna.

Deudorix livia
Male
Female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Lycaenidae
Genus:
Deudorix
Species:
D. livia
Binomial name
Deudorix livia
(Klug, 1834)[1]
Synonyms
  • Lycaena livia Klug, 1834
  • Deudorix (Virachola) livia
  • Virachola livia pallescens Rothschild, 1921

It is a somewhat migratory species. The larvae feed on Punica granatum, Eriobotrya japonica, Acacia, Phoenix, Allium, Psidium, Gardenia and Lycopersicum species.

Subspecies
  • Deudorix livia livia (northern Senegal, the Gambia, Burkina Faso, northern Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, northern Uganda, northern and central Kenya, north-central Tanzania, Somalia, Djibouti, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Egypt, eastern Mediterranean)
  • Deudorix livia barnetti Libert, 2005 (Oman)

References
  1. "Deudorix Hewitson, 1863" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Subtribe Deudoricina". Archived from the original on 2015-06-20. Retrieved 2012-06-23.


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