Eagris denuba

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Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Hesperiidae		Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Eagris

Eagris denuba, the cream flat, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sudan and Ethiopia. The habitat consists of forests.

Adults of both sexes are attracted to flowers and males feed from bird droppings and occasionally mud-puddle.

Subspecies

Eagris denuba denuba (Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, western Cameroon)

Eagris denuba obliterata Carpenter, 1928 (southern Sudan, Ethiopia)

References

Eagris denuba Wikipedia

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