Freyeria trochilus

[Freyeria trochilus Freyer]
Lycaena trochilus Freyer, 1845 [1833-1858] 5: 98; pi. 440, fig. 1. Chilades trochilus: Hawker-Smith, 1929: 233. Freyeria trochylus: Condamin, 1961b: 253 ~"
Though no Liberian specimens are known as yet, this species is quite likely to turn up eventually in the interior savannas. The African distribution of this species as recorded, for example, by Aurivillius (1925 [1908-1925]: 489) falls considerably short of actuality. The species, in addition to its occurrence in eastern Africa from the Cape to Eritraea and Arabia (and on into Indo-Australia), is also present on Madagascar and occurs, according to Carnegie Museum material, in the vicinity of Leopoldville, lower Congo River, in Gabon (A pair, taken in copula, are labelled "Prairie on Lake Ezanga, June 8, 1888, A. C. Good." There are other Gabonese specimens as well.), southern Cameroon, northern Nigeria (Maiduguri). HawkerSmith (1929) records it from Upper Volta and Condamin (1961) from Senegal, thus making it likely that trochilus is a savanna resident all the way across the interior of Upper Guinea.