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Cerautola miranda

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Cerautola miranda, the wondrous epitola, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.[2] Its habitat consists of forests and forest edges.

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Cerautola miranda
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Cerautola
Species:
C. miranda
Binomial name
Cerautola miranda
Synonyms
  • Epitola miranda Staudinger, 1889
  • Cerautola (Cerautola) miranda
  • Epitola vidua Talbot, 1935
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Subspecies

  • Cerautola miranda miranda (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western Nigeria)[3]
  • Cerautola miranda vidua (Talbot, 1935) (eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Uganda, western Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia)[4]

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