Pilodeudorix virgata

Pilodeudorix virgata, the small green-streaked playboy, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. The species was first described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1891. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria (south, east and the Cross River loop), Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the northern half of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.^[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Pilodeudorix virgata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Pilodeudorix
Species:	P. virgata
Binomial name
Pilodeudorix virgata (H. H. Druce, 1891)[1]
Synonyms
Kopelates virgata H. H. Druce, 1891 Hypolycaena gracilis Staudinger, 1891