''Tarucus kulala'', the Turkana Pierrot, 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
Somalia
Somalia, , Osmanya script: ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐; ar, ุงูุตูู
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(
Ogaden
Ogaden (pronounced and often spelled ''Ogadฤn''; so, Ogaadeen, am, แแแด/แแแดแ) is one of the historical names given to the modern Somali Region, the territory comprising the eastern portion of Ethiopia formerly part of the Harargh ...
) and northern
Kenya
)
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[Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Tribe Polyommatini (part 1)]
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Adults have been recorded feeding from the flowers of '' Loewia tanaensis''.
The larvae probably feed on ''Ziziphus
''Ziziphus'' is a genus of about 40 species of spiny shrubs and small trees in the buckthorn family, Rhamnaceae, distributed in the warm-temperate, subtropical and tropical regions of the world. The leaves are alternate, entire, with three promi ...
'' species.
References
Butterflies described in 1955
Tarucus
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