Oxylides faunus

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| image = Common false head (Oxylides faunus faunus) female.jpg

| image2 = Common false head (Oxylides faunus faunus) female underside.jpg

| image2_caption = Kakum National Park, Ghana

| taxon = Oxylides faunus

| authority = (Drury, 1773)[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/lycaenidae/theclinae/oxylides/index.html Oxylides] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

| synonyms = * Papilio faunus Drury, 1773

• Hesperia hesiodus Fabricius, 1793

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Oxylides faunus, the common false head, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria and Cameroon.[http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/lycaenidae_oxylidina.doc Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Subtribe Oxylidina] The habitat consists of primary forests.

Both sexes are attracted to flowers.