Micropentila
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Micropentila is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae, endemic to the Afrotropics.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyLycaenidae
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- Family
- Lycaenidae
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- Recorded in
- Uganda, Sierra Leone, Nigeria
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Micropentila is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae, endemic to the Afrotropics.
==Species== Micropentila adelgitha (Hewitson, 1874) Micropentila adelgunda (Staudinger, 1892) Micropentila alberta (Staudinger, 1892) Micropentila bakotae Stempffer & Bennett, 1965 Micropentila bitjeana Stempffer & Bennett, 1965 Micropentila brunnea (Kirby, 1887) Micropentila bunyoro Stempffer & Bennett, 1965 Micropentila catocala Strand, 1914 Micropentila cherereti Stempffer & Bennett, 1965 Micropentila cingulum Druce, 1910 Micropentila dorothea Bethune-Baker, 1903 Micropentila flavopunctata Stempffer & Bennett, 1965 Micropentila fontainei Stempffer & Bennett, 1965 Micropentila fulvula Hawker-Smith, 1933 Micropentila fuscula (Grose-Smith, 1898) Micropentila gabunica Stempffer & Bennett, 1965 Micropentila galenides (Holland, 1895) Micropentila jacksoni Talbot, 1937 Micropentila katangana Stempffer & Bennett, 1965 Micropentila katerae Stempffer & Bennett, 1965 Micropentila kelleana Stempffer & Bennett, 1965 Micropentila mabangi Bethune-Baker, 1904 Micropentila mamfe Larsen, 1986 Micropentila mpigi Stempffer & Bennett, 1965 Micropentila nigeriana Stempffer & Bennett, 1965 Micropentila ogojae Stempffer & Bennett, 1965 Micropentila sankuru Stempffer & Bennett, 1965 Micropentila souanke Stempffer & Bennett, 1965 Micropentila subplagata Bethune-Baker, 1915 Micropentila triangularis Aurivillius, 1895 Micropentila ugandae Hawker-Smith, 1933 Micropentila victoriae Stempffer & Bennett, 1965 Micropentila villiersi Stempffer, 1970
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