Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Lycaenidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Cerautola | |
Similar Cerautola crowleyi, Pentila pauli, Tetrarhanis, Hypolycaena antifaunus, Appias sabina | ||
Cerautola miranda, the wondrous epitola, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in 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, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of forests and forest edges.
Adults have been recorded feeding on the secretions of coccids and have also been observed settling on the shoots of climbers infested with aphids.
Both larvae and pupae have been found on the bark of Alstonia congensis.
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