Ptelina carnuta

Ptelina carnuta, the bordered buff, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, southern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Haut-Uele, Ituri, Tshopo, Equateur, Kinshasa, Sankuru and Lualaba), Uganda and north-western Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Ptelina carnuta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Lycaenidae
Genus:
Ptelina
Species:
P. carnuta
Binomial name
Ptelina carnuta
(Hewitson, 1873)[1]
Synonyms
  • Pentila carnuta Hewitson, 1873
  • Ptelina cornuta
  • Liptena parva Kirby, 1887
  • Telipna kamitugensis Dufrane, 1945

Adult males and females feed at extrafloral nectaries of vine tendrils and bamboo and on shoots of plants belonging to the family Marantaceae.

References
  1. Ptelina at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
  2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Subtribe Pentilina". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2012-09-22.


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