Mimeresia russulus

Mimeresia russulus is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae first described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1910.^[1] It is found in Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.^[2] It is a forest butterfly but little is known about its life cycle with no published information on the larval stages or larval food.^[3]

Mimeresia russulus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Mimeresia
Species:	M. russulus
Binomial name
Mimeresia russulus (H. H. Druce, 1910)
Synonyms
Pseuderesia russulus H. H. Druce, 1910 Pseuderesia katangae Hawker-Smith, 1926

Subspecies

• Mimeresia russulus russulus (Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Sankuru, Lulua and possibly Uele)
• Mimeresia russulus katangae (Hawker-Smith, 1926) (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Lualaba)
• Mimeresia russulus unyoro Stempffer, 1961 (Uganda: Budongo Forest)