Pentila picena, the western cream pentila, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria and possibly Cameroon (the Obudu area).[2] The habitat consists of forests.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Pentila |
| Species: | P. picena
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Adults feed on extrafloral nectaries on tendrils, including bamboo nectaries.
Subspecies edit
- Pentila picena picena (Ivory Coast, Ghana)
- Pentila picena catori Bethune-Baker, 1906 (central Nigeria)
- Pentila picena cydaria (Grose-Smith, 1898) (Ghana, southern and western Nigeria)
References edit
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Wikispecies has information related to Pentila picena.
- ^ Pentila at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
- ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Subtribe Pentilina". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2012-09-24.