Aphnaeus orcas

Aphnaeus orcas
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Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Aphnaeus
Species:	A. orcas
Binomial name
	Aphnaeus orcas; (Drury, 1782)
Synonyms
	Aphnaeus orcas f. paupera Aphnaeus orcas f. fontainei; Aphnaeus rattrayi Papilio orcas; Drury, 1782 Plötz, 1880 ; Sharpe, 1904 Stempffer, 1954 ; Aphnaeus orcas var. heliodorus Aphnaeus hollandi; Schultze, 1916 Berger, 1953 ; Aphnaeus guttatus Butler, 1902 ; Berger, 1953 Aphnaeus orcas f. overlaeti;

Aphnaeus orcas, the common highflier or common silver spot, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria (south and the Cross River loop), Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Mongala, Uele, Tshopo, Tshuapa, Equateur, Sankuru and Lualaba), Uganda, western and south-western Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.^[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Both sexes feed from flowers and males mud-puddle.

The larvae feed on Alchornea cordifolia, Albizia, Allophylus, Blighia, Loranthus, Macaranga, Olea, Paullinia, Rhus, Scolopia, Scutia and Uncaria species. They are attended by ants of the family Formicidae.

References

^ Aphnaeus at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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