Tarucus legrasi: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Tarucus
- Species
- Tarucus legrasi
- Scientific Name
- Tarucus legrasi
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Tarucus legrasi
Tarucus legrasi, the Le Gras' Pierrot, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Senegal, Burkina Faso, northern Ivory Coast, Nigeria (north of Kano), Niger (Aïr), northern Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, northern Uganda, north-western Kenya and Somalia. The habitat consists of arid (Sahelian) savanna
The larvae feed on Ziziphus species.
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