Baliochila barnesi
Baliochila barnesi, the Barnes's buff, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in eastern Zimbabwe, western Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[3] The species was formally described as new to science in 1953 by Henri Stempffer and Neville Henry Bennett.[4]
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Adults have been recorded on wing in November, December, March and April.
The larvae feed on algae (cyanobacteria) growing on trees.[5]
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - Stempffer, H.; Bennett, N.H. (1953). "A revision of the genus Teriomima Kirkby (Lepidoptera Lycaenidae)". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology). 3: 77–104 [86].
- Williams, Mark C. (2006). "What do the larvae of Alaena amazoula (Boisduval, 1847) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Poritiinae) feed on?" (PDF). Metamorphosis. 17 (4): 142.
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