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Cymothoe jodutta

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Cymothoe

Cymothoe jodutta

Similar
  
Cymothoe fumana, Cymothoe egesta, Cymothoe herminia, Cymothoe lurida, Cymothoe hesiodotus

Cymothoe jodutta, the Jodutta Glider, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. The habitat consists of wet forests.

The larvae feed on Caloncoba species.

Subspecies

  • Cymothoe jodutta jodutta (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana)
  • Cymothoe jodutta ciceronis (Ward, 1871) (Nigeria: east of Niger, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo: Mayumbe)
  • Cymothoe jodutta ehmckei Dewitz, 1887 (Democratic Republic of Congo: Tshuapa, Mai-Ndombe, Kinshasa, Kwango, Kasai, Sankuru)
  • Cymothoe jodutta mostinckxi Overlaet, 1952 (Uganda: west to the Bwamba Valley, Democratic Republic of Congo: Ubangi, Mongala, Uele, Ituri, Kivu and Tshopo)

    • References

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