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Apaturopsis cleochares

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Apaturopsis

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Apaturopsis cleochares, the painted empress, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The habitat consists of forests and heavy woodland.

Adults are attracted to fermenting bananas, excrement and other decaying matter. They are on wing from September to May.

The larvae possibly feed on Obetia tenax.

Subspecies

  • Apaturopsis cleochares cleochares (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, southern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Angola, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, north-western and northern Tanzania)
  • Apaturopsis cleochares schultzei Schmidt, 1921 (central Kenya, Malawi, eastern Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Tanzania: Usambara Mountains)

    • References

    Apaturopsis cleochares Wikipedia
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