Paradeudorix eleala

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| taxon = Paradeudorix eleala

| authority = (Hewitson, 1865)[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/lycaenidae/theclinae/paradeudorix/index.html Paradeudorix] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

| synonyms =

• Hypolycaena eleala Hewitson, 1865
• Hypokopelates obscura Bethune-Baker, 1914
• Deudorix (Hypokopelates) viridis Stempffer, 1964
• Hypokopelates eleala parallela Collins & Larsen, 2000
• Hypokopelates eleala cufadana Mendes & De Sousa, 2003

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Paradeudorix eleala, the western fairy playboy, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.{{Cite web |url=http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/lycaenidae_deudoricina.doc |title=Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Subtribe Deudoricina |access-date=2012-06-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150620000549/http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/lycaenidae_deudoricina.doc |archive-date=2015-06-20 |url-status=dead }} The habitat consists of primary forests.

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The larvae feed on Albizia zygia and Theobroma cacao. They are attended by the ant species Crematogaster buchneri.