Dapidodigma hymen

Dapidodigma hymen, the western virgin, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria (south and the Cross River Loop) and western Cameroon.^[2] The habitat consists of forests and scrubland.

Western virgin
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Dapidodigma
Species:	D. hymen
Binomial name
Dapidodigma hymen (Fabricius, 1775)[1]
Synonyms
Papilio hymen Fabricius, 1775 Papilio liger Cramer, 1779

The larvae possibly feed on Alchornea species, a plant usually colonized by tailor ants of the genus Oecophylla.