Oxylides bella | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Oxylides |
Species: | O. bella |
Binomial name | |
Oxylides bella Aurivillius, 1899 [1] | |
Oxylides bella is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [2] It is very close to Oxylides faunus differing in that the hindwing beneath at the anal angle between the anal spots and the distal transverse line in the areas 1 b to 2 is extensively suffused with yellow. The discal line beneath from the costal margin of the forewing to vein 3 of the hindwing black, behind it yellow. [3]
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