Teratoneura isabellae

Teratoneura isabellae, the western Isabella, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, southern Nigeria and Cameroon.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Teratoneura isabellae
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T. isabellae
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Teratoneura isabellae
Dudgeon, 1909[1]

Adults are on wing from December to March. They have been recorded feeding from the secretions of ant-attended coccids in the trees on which larvae are found.

The larvae are associated with an ant species of the genus Crematogaster. The larvae were found on the bark of Alstonia congoensis and on a species of Ficus.

References

  1. Teratoneura at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Subtribe Epitolina


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