Mimeresia russulus is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae first described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1910.[1] It is found in Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.[2] It is a forest butterfly but little is known about its life cycle with no published information on the larval stages or larval food.[3]
Mimeresia russulus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Mimeresia |
Species: | M. russulus
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Binomial name | |
Mimeresia russulus (H. H. Druce, 1910)
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