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Scintillating Fairy Hairstreak

Hypolycaena scintillans

Hypolycaena scintillans, the scintillating fairy hairstreak, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Henri Stempffer in 1957. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria and western Cameroon. Its habitat consists of primary and secondary forests.

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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 1480982.