Myrina silenus, the common fig-tree blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Sub-Saharan Africa, southern Arabia and northern Oman.
Description
The wingspan is 26.5âÂÂ34 mm for males and 33âÂÂ41 mm for females. Adults are on wing year-round with peaks from September to October and from April to June in the eastern part of the range.
Habitat and behavior
The larvae feed on Ficus species, including F. capensis, F. cordata, F. sur, F. pumila and F. ingens.
Subspecies
:Range: Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Angola, DRC, Chad, Sudan, Uganda, north-western Zambia
- M. s. nzoiae <small>d'Abrera, 1980</small>
:Range: Ethiopia, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, northern Oman, western and northern Kenya
- M. s. ficedula <small>(Trimen, 1879)</small>
:Range: southern Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia: Caprivi, Eswatini, South Africa: Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West, Gauteng, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape and Western Cape provinces
- M. s. penningtoni <small>Dickson & Stephen, 1971</small>
:Range: western South Africa: Western Cape to Northern Cape
- M. s. suzannae <small>Larsen & Plowes, 1991</small>
:Range: northern Namibia
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