''Hypolycaena jacksoni'' is a

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

in the family

Lycaenidae Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfl ...

. It is found in western

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, the

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(Kivu, Kisaba and Ruwenzori),

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and

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.Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Subtribe Hypolycaenina
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Description

''H. jacksoni'' B.-Bak. (68 c) is only known in the male and differs from all the other species [of ''Hypolaecena'' by the colouring. Wings above dull orange-red in a certain light with a faint purple reflection; forewing with a very broad marginal band; hindwing with a rather broad dark marginal band quickly tapering off towards the anal angle; anal angle bluish white, anal lobe margined with yellow; first small tail long, the second small tail shorter. Both wings beneath as far as the margin purely white; forewing with a slanting, orange-red transverse streak from the costal margin to the base of vein 2 and a postmedian, slanting, undulate, orange-red transverse band ending at vein 1; a fine, slightly bent, dark submarginal line. Hindwing with an orange-red, short basal spot in area 7, a slanting, orange-red transverse streak as far as vein 2 behind which it is continued as a black line, and a fine, feebly dentate discal line turning posteriorly towards the proximal margin; a black dot proximally bordered with yellow in 2, the spot in 1 b black narrowly bordered with yellow, and a light, metallic blue spot nearer to the margin; marginal line finely black. Uganda: Toro. . Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. ''Die Grosschmetterlinge der Erde'' Band 13: Abt. 2, ''Die exotischen Grosschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter'', 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart.

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''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 68
''c'' Butterflies described in 1906 Hypolycaenini {{Theclinae-stub