| Hypolycaena jacksoni | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Hypolycaena |
| Species: | H. jacksoni |
| Binomial name | |
| Hypolycaena jacksoni Bethune-Baker, 1906 [1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Hypolycaena jacksoni is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in western Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kivu, Kisaba and Ruwenzori), Rwanda and Burundi. [2]
H. jacksoni B.-Bak. (68 c) is only known in the male and differs from all the other species [of Hypolaecena by the colouring. Wings above dull orange-red in a certain light with a faint purple reflection; forewing with a very broad marginal band; hindwing with a rather broad dark marginal band quickly tapering off towards the anal angle; anal angle bluish white, anal lobe margined with yellow; first small tail long, the second small tail shorter. Both wings beneath as far as the margin purely white; forewing with a slanting, orange-red transverse streak from the costal margin to the base of vein 2 and a postmedian, slanting, undulate, orange-red transverse band ending at vein 1; a fine, slightly bent, dark submarginal line. Hindwing with an orange-red, short basal spot in area 7, a slanting, orange-red transverse streak as far as vein 2 behind which it is continued as a black line, and a fine, feebly dentate discal line turning posteriorly towards the proximal margin; a black dot proximally bordered with yellow in 2, the spot in 1 b black narrowly bordered with yellow, and a light, metallic blue spot nearer to the margin; marginal line finely black. Uganda: Toro. . [3]
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