Anthene sylvanus

Anthene sylvanus, the common indigo ciliate blue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Tanzania.^[2] The habitat consists of forests and dense Guinea savanna.

Anthene sylvanus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Anthene
Species:	A. sylvanus
Binomial name
Anthene sylvanus (Drury, 1773)^[1]
Synonyms
Papilio sylvanus Drury, 1773 Anthene (Anthene) sylvanus Papilio moncus Fabricius, 1781 Timolus syllidus Hübner, 1826 Lycaenesthes locra Plötz, 1880 Lycaenesthes sylvanus var. natalensis Staudinger and Schatz, 1888 Lycaenesthes ukerewensis var. albicans Grünberg, 1910 Anthene sylvanus bugalla Stempffer and Jackson, 1962

Subspecies

• Anthene sylvanus sylvanus (Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria: south and the Cross River loop, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Mongala, Uele, Ituri, Kivu, Tshopo, Kinshasa, Cataractes, Sankuru, Mamiema, Lualaba, Tanganika and Shaba)
• Anthene sylvanus albicans (Grünberg, 1910) (southern Uganda, north-western Tanzania)
• Anthene sylvanus niveus Stempffer, 1954 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Equator)

References

 

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1. Anthene at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
2. . Archived from the original on 2015-02-19. Retrieved 2012-09-07.