Pilodeudorix diyllus

Pilodeudorix diyllus, the green-streaked playboy, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria and Cameroon.^[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Pilodeudorix diyllus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Pilodeudorix
Species:	P. diyllus
Binomial name
Pilodeudorix diyllus (Hewitson, 1878)[1]
Synonyms
Deudorix diyllus Hewitson, 1878 Hypolycaena debilis Staudinger, 1891

Adults have been recorded feeding from the flowers of Eupatorium odorata.

The larvae feed on Pterocarpus esculenta. They are attended by ants of the genus Oecophylla.

Subspecies

• Pilodeudorix diyllus diyllus (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria: south and the Cross River loop, western Cameroon)
• Pilodeudorix diyllus occidentalis Libert, 2004 (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea)