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Cerautola crowleyi

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Lycaenidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Cerautola

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Similar
  
Pentila pauli, Megalopalpus zymna, Ptelina carnuta, Iolaus timon, Azanus isis

Cerautola crowleyi, the Crowley's epitola, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of forests.

The larvae feed on foliate lichen.

Subspecies

  • C. c. crowleyi (Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western Nigeria)
  • C. c. congdoni Libert & Collins, 1999 (north-western Tanzania, Zambia)
  • C. c. holochroma (Berger, 1981) (eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda)
  • C. c. leucographa Libert, 1999 (Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, northern Angola, Central African Republic, western Democratic Republic of the Congo)

    • References

    Cerautola crowleyi Wikipedia
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