Euliphyra mirifica Holland 1890

Euliphyra mirifica Holland
Liphyra leucyania Hewitson, 1874c: 355 (5, not $'); 1878 [1862-1878]: 35; pi. 5b,
fig. 1. Euliphyra mirifica Holland, 1890a: 423. Grose-Smith and Kirby, 1893 [1887-1902]
(XX): 89; figs. 11, 12. Lamborn et ah, 1914: 450 ft"., 505 ft., 509 ft.; pi.
27, figs. 5-11, pi. 28, figs. 1-10. Aurivillius, 1920 [1908-1925]: 344; pi.
65c. Bethune-Baker, 1925: 203 ff. Euliphyra hewitsoni Aurivillius, 1898: 286 (new name for 2 "leucyania" Hewitson).
The species ranges possibly from Sierra Leone (see Lamborn et al., 1914: 504) through Ghana to Nigeria and south through Cameroon and Gabon to Angola. It is newly recorded from Liberia.
Liberia: Harbel, 1 $ , X (Fox). Forewing with only four radial veins; the legs are densely covered with long woolly hair. Only a single genus is known.

Euliphyra mirifica, the African moth butterfly, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, northern Angola and the western two-thirds of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The habitat consists of forests.

Adults have been recorded in June and July.

The larvae live in the nests of Oecophylla smaragdina race longinoda and feed on ant regurgitations.