Cephetola pinodes

Cephetola pinodes, or Druce's epitola, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. The species was first described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1890. It is found in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Tanzania.^[2]

Druce's epitola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Cephetola
Species:	C. pinodes
Binomial name
Cephetola pinodes (H. H. Druce, 1890)[1]
Synonyms
Epitola pinodes H. H. Druce, 1890 Epitola conjuncta Grose-Smith and Kirby, 1893 Epitola conjuncta budduana Talbot, 1937

Subspecies

• Cephetola pinodes pinodes (Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, western Nigeria)^[3]
• Cephetola pinodes budduana (Talbot, 1937) (eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, north-western Tanzania)^[4]