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Eagris decastigma

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Hesperiidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Eagris

Eagris decastigma

Eagris decastigma, the purple flat, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of paths and clearings in dense forests.

Adult males visit urine patches.

Subspecies

  • Eagris decastigma decastigma (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon)
  • Eagris decastigma fuscosa (Holland, 1893) (Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo)
  • Eagris decastigma purpura Evans, 1937 (southern Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania, Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo: north-east to Ituri)

    • References

    Eagris decastigma Wikipedia
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