About Tarucus rosacea Austaut, 1885
Tarucus rosacea, commonly known as the Mediterranean Pierrot or Mediterranean tiger blue, is a species of butterfly belonging to the family Lycaenidae. This species is distributed across Mauritania, Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Burkina Faso, northern Ivory Coast, northern Ghana, northern Nigeria, Niger, northern Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, northern Uganda, north-western Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti, and Arabia. Its natural habitat is made up of Sudan savanna and the Sahel. Adult Tarucus rosacea feed on nectar from the flowers of Ziziphus species. The larvae of this species feed on Ziziphus jujuba. Tarucus rosacea larvae are associated with ants from the Plagiolepis, Camponotus, and Monomorium genera.
