Tuxentius carana: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Tuxentius
- Species
- Tuxentius carana
- Scientific Name
- Tuxentius carana
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Tuxentius carana
Tuxentius carana, the forest pied Pierrot, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic and the DRC. The habitat consists of forests.
Adult males mud-puddle.
...Tuxentius carana in languages:
- English
- Forest Pied Pierrot
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