Pseudaletis leonis

West African fantasy
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Pseudaletis
Species: P. leonis
Binomial name
Pseudaletis leonis
(Staudinger, 1888)[1]
Synonyms
  • Sithon leonis Staudinger, 1888
  • Pseudaletis trifasciata Sharpe, 1890

Pseudaletis leonis, the West African fantasy, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and western Nigeria.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Adults are thought to be mimics of the day-flying moth Nyctemera apicalis.

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