Eresina maesseni

Content sourced from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Eresina maesseni, or Maessen's eresina, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It lives in West Africa—Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, southern Nigeria and Cameroon—where it inhabits dense primary forests, both wet and dry. The binomial name is Eresina maesseni Stempffer, 1956.

Taxonomy: Kingdom Animalia; Phylum Arthropoda; Class Insecta; Order Lepidoptera; Family Lycaenidae; Genus Eresina; Species E. maesseni.