Cacyreus audeoudi, the Audeoud's blue or bright bush blue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria (south and the Cross River loop), Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Mongala, Uele, Ituri, Kivu, Tshopo, Equateur, Sankuru and Lualaba), Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of forests and forest-savanna areas.
Cacyreus audeoudi | |
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in Ghana | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Cacyreus |
Species: | C. audeoudi
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Binomial name | |
Cacyreus audeoudi |
References
edit- ^ Cacyreus at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
- ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Tribe Polyommatini (part 1)". Archived from the original on 2013-12-13. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
- Media related to Cacyreus audeoudi at Wikimedia Commons
- Data related to Cacyreus audeoudi at Wikispecies