Uranothauma antinorii
| Uranothauma antinorii | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Uranothauma |
| Species: | U. antinorii |
| Binomial name | |
| Uranothauma antinorii (Oberthür, 1883)[1] | |
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Uranothauma antinorii, the blue heart or Antinori's branded blue, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.[2] The habitat consists of edges of submontane forests.
Adult males are attracted to damp patches and have been recorded on carnivore scat. Both sexes feed from small flowers. Adults are on wing in summer.
Subspecies
- Uranothauma antinorii antinorii (highlands Ethiopia)
- Uranothauma antinorii bamendanus Libert, 1993 (Nigeria, highlands Cameroon)
- Uranothauma antinorii felthami (Stevenson, 1934) (Kenya: west and the central highlands, Uganda, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Lualaba and Shaba, northern Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe)
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- ↑ Uranothauma at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Tribe Polyommatini (part 1)
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