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Neurellipes lusones
Neurellipes lusones, Anthene lusones, the large red-spot ciliate blue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania. The habitat consists of forests.
Torben Larsen developed a species numbering system for his 2005 publication Butterflies of West Africa. This species, described as Anthene lusones is #542. The 'Larsen' numbers have since been used with permission in A Sharp Eye on Butterflies of Ghana.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1102758.