Miletinae is a subfamily of the family Lycaenidae of butterflies, commonly called harvesters and woolly legs, and virtually unique among butterflies in having predatory larvae. Miletinae are entirely aphytophagous. The ecology of the Miletinae is little understood, but adults and larvae live in association with ants, and most known species feed on Hemiptera, though some, like Liphyra, feed on the ants themselves. The butterflies, ants, and hemipterans, in some cases, seem to have complex symbiotic relationships benefiting all.
Aslauga australis, the southern purple, is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is endemic to South Africa, where it is known from only twenty locations consisting of savannah and coastal forest in the East Cape. It has also been recorded from Durban in KwaZulu-Natal.
Aslauga is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. They are associated with other insects and found only in the Afrotropical realm. They are small usually grey-blue or grey-purple butterflies with a distinctive, but widely varied wing shape, especially pronounced in A. pandora. They are forest butterflies of the Congolian forests and Lower Guinean forests.
Epitola is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are endemic to the Afrotropical realm. Epitola was erected by John O. Westwood in 1851.
Neaveia is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae which is endemic to the Afrotropical realm. Its only species, Neaveia lamborni, the pierine blue, is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Both the genus and species were first described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1910. The habitat consists of forests and open areas.
Aslauga aura is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae first described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1913. It is found in Cameroon, Gabon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Aslauga confusa is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo and Gabon.
Aslauga ernesti, the western egumbia, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Ghana, Togo and western Nigeria.
Aslauga imitans, the imitating aslauga, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Ghana, western Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Aslauga kallimoides, the imitating aslauga, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in southern Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Equateur).
Aslauga vininga, the central aslauga, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea (Bioko), Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania and Zambia.
Aslauga katangana is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Aslauga latifurca is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Kenya, Malawi and Zambia.
Aslauga marshalli, the dusky purple, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Cameroon, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and possibly Nigeria. The habitat consists of savanna, Brachystegia-Julbernardia woodland, marshes and shallow lakes.
Aslauga pandora is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae first described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1913. It is found in Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda (Unyoro).
Aslauga prouvosti, the Prouvost's aslauga, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Shaba) and western and north-western Tanzania.
Aslauga satyroides is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Cameroon.
Aslauga purpurascens is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of forests.
Alaena lamborni is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in southern Malawi.
William Alfred Stedwell Lamborn was a British physician and medical entomologist who worked in Southeast Asia and Africa, conducting studies on malaria and trypanosoma while also collecting and studying insects. A number of insect species including Alaena lamborni, Aslauga lamborni, Sphecodemyia lamborni, Praestochrysis lamborni; and the ciliate genus Lambornella are named after him.
