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{{Short description|Monotypic butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae}}
{{Taxobox
| image = LamborniDruce1910OD.jpg
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| regnum = [[Animalia]]
| phylum = [[Arthropoda]]
| classis = [[Insecta]]
| ordo = [[Lepidoptera]]
| familia = [[Lycaenidae]]
| genus = '''''Neaveia'''''
| genus_authority = [[Hamilton Herbert Druce|H. H. Druce]], 1910
| species = '''''N. lamborni'''''
| binomial = ''Neaveia lamborni''
| binomial_authority = H. H. Druce, 1910<ref>{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |date=August 31, 2016 |url=https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/lycaenidae/poritiinae/neaveia/#lamborni |title=''Neaveia lamborni'' Druce, 1910 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=December 16, 2019}}</ref>
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'''''Neaveia''''' is a [[monotypic]] [[butterfly]] genus in the family [[Lycaenidae]] which is [[endemic]] to the [[Afrotropical realm]]. Its only species, '''''Neaveia lamborni''''', the '''pierine blue''', is found in [[Ivory Coast]], [[Ghana]], [[Nigeria]], [[Cameroon]], the [[Republic of the Congo]], the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], [[Uganda]], [[Kenya]] and [[Tanzania]]. Both the genus and species were [[Species description|first described]] by [[Hamilton Herbert Druce]] in 1910.<ref name=ATBUT>{{Cite web |url=http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/lycaenidae_epitolina.doc |title=Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Subtribe Epitolina |access-date=2012-09-18 |archive-date=2018-11-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181123155047/http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/lycaenidae_epitolina.doc |url-status=dead }}</ref> The habitat consists of forests and open areas.
==Subspecies==
* ''Neaveia lamborni lamborni'' (Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria: south and the [[Cross River (Nigeria)|Cross River]] loop, Cameroon)
* ''Neaveia lamborni orientalis'' <small>Jackson, 1962</small> (Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Uele, western Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)
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[[Category:Poritiinae]]
[[Category:Monotypic butterfly genera]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Hamilton Herbert Druce]]
[[Category:Lycaenidae genera]]
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