Lachnocnema emperamus

"Western woolly legs" redirects here. For the other butterfly with this common name, see Lachnocnema vuattouxi.

Common woolly legs
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Lachnocnema
Species:	L. emperamus
Binomial name
Lachnocnema emperamus (Snellen, 1872) [1]
Synonyms
Lycaena emperamusSnellen, 1872 Lachnocnema brimoKarsch, 1893 Lachnocnema sudanicaAurivillius, 1905 Lachnocnema obliquisignaHulstaert, 1924 Lachnocnema rectifasciaHulstaert, 1924

Lachnocnema emperamus, the common woolly legs or western woolly legs, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and western and central Kenya. ^[2] The habitat consists of savanna and degraded forests.

The larvae feed on Psyllidae species.

References

1. Lachnocnema emperamus at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Subtribe Lachnocnemina". Archived from the original on 2014-12-13. Retrieved 2012-09-19.