''Anthene opalina'', the opal hairtail, is a
butterfly in the family
Lycaenidae. It is found in southern
Ethiopia,
Somalia, northern and eastern
Kenya and
Tanzania (
Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam (; from ar, دَار السَّلَام, Dâr es-Selâm, lit=Abode of Peace) or commonly known as Dar, is the largest city and financial hub of Tanzania. It is also the capital of Dar es Salaam Region. With a population of over s ...
).
The habitat consists of dry savanna.
References
Butterflies described in 1946
opalina
''Opalina'' is a genus of parasitic heterokonts found in the intestines of frogs and toads. They lack mouths and contractile vacuoles, they are covered with nearly equal flagelliform cilia, and they have numerous nuclei, all similar. All the spe ...
Butterflies of Africa
Taxa named by Henri Stempffer
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