Species of butterfly
| Pentila cloetensi
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain:
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Eukaryota
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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| Phylum:
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Arthropoda
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| Class:
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Insecta
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| Order:
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Lepidoptera
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| Family:
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Lycaenidae
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| Genus:
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Pentila
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| Species:
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P. cloetensi
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| Binomial name
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Pentila cloetensi
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| Synonyms
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- Pentila elfrieda Suffert, 1904
- Pentila aspasia albida Hawker-Smith, 1933
- Pentila cloetensi ab. elfriedana Strand, 1918
- Pentila aspasia Grünberg, 1910
- Pentila catauga Rebel, 1914
- Pentila auga congoensis Joicey and Talbot, 1921
- Pentila cloetensi ueleensis Stempffer and Bennett, 1961
- Pentila cloetensi ab. latefascia Dufrane, 1953
- Pentila lucayensis Schultze, 1923
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Pentila cloetensi is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
Adults are on wing in November and December.
Subspecies
- P. c. cloetensi (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Mongala, Bas-Uele, Equateur, Kasai, Sankuru and Lualaba)
- P. c. albida Hawker-Smith, 1933 (Uganda: forested areas except the Bwamba Valley, north-western Tanzania)
- P. c. aspasia Grünberg, 1910 (southern Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea)
- P. c. catauga Rebel, 1914 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Haut-Uele, Ituri and North Kivu, Uganda: west to the Bwamba Valley)
- P. c. latefasciata Stempffer & Bennett, 1961 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: North Kivu and Maniema)
- P. c. lucayensis Schultze, 1923 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Kinshasa)
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