Deudorix odana

Deudorix odana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Deudorix
Species:	D. odana
Binomial name
	Deudorix odana; H. H. Druce, 1887
Synonyms
	Deudorix (Virachola) odana;

Last updated October 31, 2026

Deudorix odana, the indigo playboy, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. The species was first described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1887. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria (south and the Cross River loop), Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Uele, Tshopo, Sankuru and Lualaba), Uganda, western Kenya and north-western Tanzania. The habitat consists of forests.

Adults feed from flowers and both sexes mud-puddle.

The larvae feed on Canavalia ensiformis and Caesalpinia species. They feed on the seeds of their host plant within the pods.

Torben Larsen developed a species numbering system for his 2005 publication Butterflies of West Africa. This species is #500.^[2] The 'Larsen' numbers have since been used with permission in A Sharp Eye on Butterflies of Ghana.^[3]

References

↑ Savela, Markku (November 20, 2018). "Deudorix odana Druce, 1887". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
↑ Larsen, Torben B. (2005). Butterflies of West Africa. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. ISBN 978-87-88757-43-9.
↑ Sharp, Charles J.; Sáfián, Sz. (2026). A Sharp Eye on Butterflies of Ghana. Oxford: Sharp Eye Publications and Hungarian Natural Heritage Trust. p. 59. ISBN 978-615-02-5911-6.

External links

Media related to Deudorix odana at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Deudorix odana at Wikispecies
Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 68 a

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[funet-1] Savela, Markku (November 20, 2018). "Deudorix odana Druce, 1887". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved December 16, 2019.

[2] Larsen, Torben B. (2005). Butterflies of West Africa. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. ISBN 978-87-88757-43-9.

[3] Sharp, Charles J.; Sáfián, Sz. (2026). A Sharp Eye on Butterflies of Ghana. Oxford: Sharp Eye Publications and Hungarian Natural Heritage Trust. p. 59. ISBN 978-615-02-5911-6.

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