Lepidochrysops
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- Specimen records
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- Family
- Lycaenidae
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- USNM, SAM, YPM
- Recorded in
- Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Eritrea, Kenya, Zambia, Liberia, Ghana
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Lepidochrysops is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The members (species) are found in the Afrotropical realm.
They are medium-sized to fairly large (wingspan 30-50 millimetres) blues. The upper parts of the males have a slightly pale, pearlescent, blue or blue-violet sheen, the females are brown. The underparts are brownish with darker brown spots. The larvae often feed on herbs in the genus Selago. The genus is found only in the Afrotropical ecozone, most of the species live in southern and eastern Africa.
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