''Anthene hodsoni'', the Hodson's hairtail, is a
butterfly in the family
Lycaenidae. It is found in
Ethiopia,
Sudan
Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...
,
Uganda and
Kenya.
The habitat consists of savanna.
The larvae feed on ''
Acacia drepanolobium
''Vachellia drepanolobium'', more commonly known as ''Acacia drepanolobium'' or whistling thorn, is a swollen-thorn acacia native to East Africa. The whistling thorn grows up to 6 meters tall. It produces a pair of straight spines at each node, s ...
'' from within
gall
Galls (from the Latin , 'oak-apple') or ''cecidia'' (from the Greek , anything gushing out) are a kind of swelling growth on the external tissues of plants, fungi, or animals. Plant galls are abnormal outgrowths of plant tissues, similar to be ...
s. The larvae are associated with ants of the genus ''
Pheidole''.
Subspecies
*''Anthene hodsoni hodsoni'' (south-western Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, north-western Kenya)
*''Anthene hodsoni usamba''
(Talbot, 1937) (central Kenya)
References
Butterflies described in 1935
hodsoni
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