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Common False Head

Oxylides faunu

Photo by pamsai
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Field Notes

Description:

Oxylides faunus, the Common False Head, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family.

Habitat:

In the forest, not too far from the edge, but it was very dark and I used flash.

The habitat consists of primary forests.

Notes:

Mabira Forest is the only large remaining tract of tropical jungle in central Uganda. A huge sugar cane plantation is ever encroaching on the forest, trying to take it over, and the people are fighting to retain it.

Reference Links:

Oxylides faunus, Butterflies of Africa - Oxylides faunus

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