''Lachnocnema'', commonly called woolly legs, is a genus of
butterflies
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 ...
found mainly in
Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is, geographically, the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara. These include West Africa, East Africa, Central Africa, and Southern Africa. Geopolitically, in addition to the List of sov ...
. Identification requires dissection to reveal subtle genital distinctions.
Species
Listed alphabetically within
species group
In biology, a species complex is a group of closely related organisms that are so similar in appearance and other features that the boundaries between them are often unclear. The taxa in the complex may be able to hybridize readily with each oth ...
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*''Lachnocnema bibulus'' group
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Lachnocnema bibulus
''Lachnocnema bibulus'', the common woolly legs, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Sub-Saharan Africa. In South Africa it is found from the East Cape to KwaZulu-Natal, Eswatini, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, the Limpopo Province, a ...
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(Fabricius, 1793) – common woolly legs
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Lachnocnema kiellandi
''Lachnocnema kiellandi'' is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Tanzania
Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African ...
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Libert, 1996
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Lachnocnema laches''
(Fabricius, 1793) – southern pied woolly legs
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Lachnocnema pseudobibulus
''Lachnocnema pseudobibulus'' is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi and Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked c ...
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Libert, 1996
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Lachnocnema riftensis''
Libert, 1996
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Lachnocnema sosia''
Libert, 1996
*''Lachnocnema durbani'' group
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Lachnocnema durbani
''Lachnocnema durbani'', the D'Urban's woolly legs, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found from Cape Point and KwaZulu-Natal to Mozambique to Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda. The habitat consists of grassy areas in savanna.
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Trimen, 1887 – D'Urban's woolly legs
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Lachnocnema intermedia''
Libert, 1996
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Lachnocnema tanzaniensis''
Libert, 1996
*''Lachnocnema abyssinica'' group
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Lachnocnema abyssinica''
Libert, 1996
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Lachnocnema angolanus''
Libert, 1996
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Lachnocnema ducarmei''
Libert, 1996
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Lachnocnema triangularis''
Libert, 1996
*''Lachnocnema jacksoni'' group
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Lachnocnema jacksoni''
Stempffer, 1967
*''Lachnocnema emperamus'' group
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Lachnocnema bamptoni''
Libert, 1996
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Lachnocnema brimoides''
Libert, 1996
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Lachnocnema divergens
''Lachnocnema divergens'', the divergent woolly legs, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in south-eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic
The Central African Republic (CAR ...
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Gaede, 1915 – divergent woolly legs
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Lachnocnema dohertyi''
Libert, 1996
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Lachnocnema emperamus
''Lachnocnema emperamus'', the common woolly legs or western woolly legs, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republ ...
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(Snellen, 1872) – common woolly legs or western woolly legs
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Lachnocnema katangae
''Lachnocnema katangae'' is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in the south-eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloq ...
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Libert, 1996
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Lachnocnema obscura
''Lachnocnema obscura'' is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in the central part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially ...
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Libert, 1996
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Lachnocnema overlaeti''
Libert, 1996
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Lachnocnema regularis
''Lachnocnema regularis'', the regular woolly legs, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. The nominate subspecies is only known from a single record in the Limpopo Province. Subspecies ''grisea'' is also found in Africa, including Tanzania.
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(Libert, 1996) – regular woolly legs
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Lachnocnema vuattouxi''
Libert, 1996 – western woolly legs
*''Lachnocnema reutlingeri'' group
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Lachnocnema albimacula''
Libert, 1996 - Libert's large woolly legs
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Lachnocnema brunea
''Lachnocnema brunea'' is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, north-western Tanzania, and western Kenya
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Libert, 1996
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Lachnocnema jolyana''
Libert, 1996
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Lachnocnema luna''
Druce, 1910 – Druce's large woolly legs
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Lachnocnema magna''
Aurivillius, 1895 – large woolly legs
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Lachnocnema nigrocellularis
''Lachnocnema nigrocellularis'' is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Cameroon and the Republic of the Congo
The Republic of the Congo (french: République du Congo, ln, Republíki ya Kongó), also known as Congo-Brazzav ...
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Libert, 1996
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Lachnocnema reutlingeri''
Holland, 1892 – Reutlinger's large woolly legs
*''Lachnocnema exiguus'' group
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Lachnocnema exiguus
''Lachnocnema exiguus'', the white woolly legs, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the north-eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and nort ...
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Holland, 1890 – white woolly legs
*Species group unknown
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Lachnocnema congoensis
''Lachnocnema congoensis'' is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in the south-western part of the Republic of the Congo
The Republic of the Congo (french: République du Congo, ln, Republíki ya Kongó), also known as Congo ...
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Libert, 1996
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Lachnocnema disrupta''
Talbot, 1935 – toothed white woolly legs
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Lachnocnema inexpectata''
Libert, 1996
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Lachnocnema unicolor
''Lachnocnema unicolor'' is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in north-eastern Tanzania.
References
Endemic fauna of Tanzania
Butterflies described in 1996
Taxa named by Michel Libert
Miletinae
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Libert, 1996
References
*Libert, M. (1996a) Contribution a l'etude des Lycaenidae africains. Revision du genre Lachnocnema Trimen, (Lepidoptera Lycaenidae). ''Lambillionea'' 96 (1):185-202.
*Libert, M. (1996b) Contribution a l'etude des Lycaenidae africains: revision du genre Lachnocnema Trimen, deuxieme partie (1). (Lepidoptera Lycaenidae). ''Lambillionea'' 96 (2):367-386.
*Libert, M. (1996c) Contribution a l'etude des Lycaenidae africains: revision du genre Lachnocnema Trimen, troisieme partie. (Lepidoptera Lycaenidae). ''Lambillionea'' 96 (3):479-500.
Seitz, A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 65
Lycaenidae genera
Miletinae
Taxa named by Roland Trimen
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