Adult males are attracted to damp patches and traps baited with fish, prawn or toad. Both sexes are attracted to flowers. The larvae feed on Acacia abyssinica, Albizia adianthifolia and Albizia gummifera. They feed on the young shoots of their host plant.
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uranothauma, falkensteini, lowland, branded, blue, butterfly, family, lycaenidae, lowland, branded, blue, scientific, classification, domain, eukaryota, kingdom, animalia, phylum, arthropoda, class, insecta, order, lepidoptera, family, lycaenidae, genus, urano. Uranothauma falkensteini the lowland branded blue is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae Lowland branded blue Scientific classification Domain Eukaryota Kingdom Animalia Phylum Arthropoda Class Insecta Order Lepidoptera Family Lycaenidae Genus Uranothauma Species U falkensteini Binomial name Uranothauma falkensteini Dewitz 1879 1 Synonyms Plebeius Lampides falkensteini Dewitz 1879 Uranothauma falkensteini f umbra Talbot 1935 Uranothauma falkensteini f albescens Stoneham 1937Range and habitat edit nbsp At Bobiri Forest in Ghana It is found in Guinea Sierra Leone Liberia Ivory Coast Ghana Togo Nigeria south and the Cross River loop Cameroon the Republic of the Congo the Central African Republic Angola the DRC Uganda Kenya Tanzania Malawi Zambia Mozambique and Zimbabwe 2 The habitat consists of forests Habits and food plants editAdult males are attracted to damp patches and traps baited with fish prawn or toad Both sexes are attracted to flowers The larvae feed on Acacia abyssinica Albizia adianthifolia and Albizia gummifera They feed on the young shoots of their host plant References edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Uranothauma falkensteini nbsp Wikispecies has information related to Uranothauma falkensteini Uranothauma at Markku Savela s Lepidoptera and some other life forms Afrotropical Butterflies Lycaenidae Tribe Polyommatini part 1 This Polyommatini related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Uranothauma falkensteini amp oldid 1007223423, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
