Anthene liodes — The Life Data

Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Lycaenidae/Anthene

At a glance

Occurrence records69

Data sources7

Biological traits0

DNA specimens1

eDNA detections0

Sources7 archives

Databases and archives Anthene liodes's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility69 records↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics1 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗

GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗

On this page3 sections

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NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Occurrence & distributionGBIF69 records

DNA & barcodingBOLD1 specimens

01Narrative

Anthene liodes, the liodes hairtail, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found from Sierra Leone to Kenya, then to Malawi, Zimbabwe and Angola. It is also found in South Africa, where it rare and found from KwaZulu-Natal to Swaziland, Mpumalanga and the Limpopo Province. Its habitat is usually woodlands, forest-edge habitats and dense savannah. The wingspan is 21–25 mm for males and 21–27 mm for females. Adults are on wing year-round, with a peak in summer. The larvae feed on Mangifera (including M. indica), Combretum, Myrica and Allophylus species

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

No structured trait data for this taxon yet.

05DNA & barcoding1 specimens

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Anthene liodes has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens1

Countries1

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type69 records

Wild obs. + sensor33

Museum / vouchered36

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO180 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy74% within 1 km

≤100 m 8≤1 km 6≤10 km 4>10 km 1

19 georeferenced · 14 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor33

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy0% within 1 km

≤10 km 2>10 km 7

9 georeferenced · 27 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence36

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions2 of 6 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Durban Natural Science Museumlocation not on record	13
Teylers Museumlocation not on record	9
Cambridge, US	7
Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record	4
New Haven, US	2
NTNU University Museum, Department of Natural Historylocation not on record	1

6 institutions · 36 of 36 vouchered records shown