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Pilodeudorix obscurata
Pilodeudorix obscurata, the obscure blue-heart playboy, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya (east of the Rift Valley), Tanzania, Zambia (from Lusaka northwards), Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Namibia. The habitat consists of savanna.
Adults are attracted to flowers. They are on wing from August to September and again from November to May.
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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 683894.