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Pentila picena
Pentila picena, the western cream pentila, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria and possibly Cameroon (the Obudu area). The habitat consists of forests.
Adults feed on extrafloral nectaries on tendrils, including bamboo nectaries.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 149620.