''Tetrarhanis stempfferi'', the Stempffer's on-off, is a
butterfly in the family
Lycaenidae. The species is named after French entomologist
Henri Stempffer Henri Stempffer (23 January 1894 – 1 November 1978) was a French entomologist who specialized in the study of Lycaenidae butterflies.
Biography
Stempffer was born on 23 January 1894 in Paris, at 19 rue de Charonne.Luquet (G. Chr.), 2004. Notes ...
. It is found in
Liberia
Liberia (), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean ...
,
Ghana,
Nigeria,
Cameroon, the
Republic of the Congo
The Republic of the Congo (french: République du Congo, ln, Republíki ya Kongó), also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country located in the western coast of Central Africa to the w ...
, the
Central African Republic, the
Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Uganda and
Kenya.
[Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Subtribe Liptenina]
/ref> The habitat consists of primary forests.
Subspecies
*''Tetrarhanis stempfferi stempfferi'' (Liberia, Ghana, southern Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo: Uele, Tshopo, Sankuru and Lualaba)
*''Tetrarhanis stempfferi kigezi'' (Stempffer, 1956) (Uganda: south-west to the Kigezi district, western Kenya)
References
Butterflies described in 1954
Poritiinae
Butterflies of Africa
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