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''Anthene crawshayi'', Crawshay’s Hairtail or Crawshay’s Ciliate Blue, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sudan, Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa.〔(Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Tribe Lycaenesthini )〕 The habitat consists of savanna and open forests. Adult males mud-puddle and both sexes are attracted to the flowers of ''Acacia'' trees. Adults are on wing year round. The larvae feed on the young terminal shoots of ''Acacia abyssinica'', ''Acacia polycantha campylacantha'', ''Cassia alata'' and ''Entada abyssinica''. They are green with a dark dorsal line and with dark diagonal lateral stripes. ==Subspecies== *''Anthene crawshayi crawshayi'' (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria: south and the Cross River loop, Cameroon, Uganda, western Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, north-eastern Zimbabwe, South Africa: Limpopo Province, Democratic Republic of Congo: Uele, Ituri, Kinshasa, Sankuru, Lualaba, Lomani, Shaba, Maniema and Kivu) *''Anthene crawshayi minuta'' (Bethune-Baker, 1916) (Sudan, Ethiopia, northern Uganda, Somalia, east and northern Kenya) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anthene crawshayi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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