About Pentila pauli Staudinger, 1888
Pentila pauli, commonly known as Paul's buff, Paul's pentila, or spotted pentila, is a butterfly species belonging to the family Lycaenidae. It is distributed across Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, and Zimbabwe. This species inhabits deciduous woodland and forest margins. Its larvae feed on very dark, blue-green (black) cyanobacteria, a type of algae that grows on tree trunks.
