''Aphnaeus asterius'', the brick silver spot, is a
butterfly in the family
Lycaenidae. It is found in
Sierra Leone,
Ivory Coast
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,
Ghana, southern
Nigeria,
Cameroon,
Gabon, the
Republic of the Congo
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, the
Central African Republic and the
Democratic Republic of the Congo (
Équateur and
Sankuru
Sankuru is one of the 21 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning. Sankuru, Kasaï-Oriental, and Lomami provinces are the result of the dismemberment of the former Kasaï-Oriental province. San ...
).
The habitat consists of
primary forests
An old-growth forestalso termed primary forest, virgin forest, late seral forest, primeval forest, or first-growth forestis a forest that has attained great age without significant disturbance, and thereby exhibits unique ecological feature ...
.
References
External links
''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 69''d'' also (synonym) as ''argenteola'' Holland, 1890
Butterflies described in 1880
Aphnaeus
Butterflies of Africa
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