Pilodeudorix diyllus

Pilodeudorix diyllus
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Pilodeudorix
Species:	P. diyllus
Binomial name
	Pilodeudorix diyllus; (Hewitson, 1878)
Synonyms
	Deudorix diyllus Hewitson, 1878; Hypolycaena debilis Staudinger, 1891;

Pilodeudorix diyllus, the green-streaked playboy, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria and Cameroon.^[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Adults have been recorded feeding from the flowers of Eupatorium odorata.

The larvae feed on Pterocarpus esculenta. They are attended by ants of the genus Oecophylla.

Subspecies

Pilodeudorix diyllus diyllus (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria: south and the Cross River loop, western Cameroon)
Pilodeudorix diyllus occidentalis Libert, 2004 (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea)

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