Alaena caissa
Appearance
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Alaena |
Species: | A. caissa
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Binomial name | |
Alaena caissa | |
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Alaena caissa is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Uganda and Tanzania.[2] Its habitat consists of open, rocky areas.
Subspecies
[edit]- Alaena caissa caissa (northern Tanzania)
- Alaena caissa kagera Talbot, 1935 (Tanzania: north-west to the Kagera and Bukoba Districts, Uganda: open areas west of Lake Victoria)
References
[edit]Wikispecies has information related to Alaena caissa.
- ^ Alaena at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
- ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Subtribe Pentilina". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2012-09-21.