Tailed Black-eye

Leptomyrina hirundo

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae

Leptomyrina hirundo, the tailed black-eye, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found from South Africa to the coast of eastern Kenya and Malawi. In South Africa it is found in warm wooded savannah from the Eastern Cape to coastal KwaZulu-Natal and inland in riverine forest to Swaziland, Mpumalanga and Limpopo.

Distribution

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Sources and credits

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