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Euphaedra harpalyce

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Euphaedra

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Similar
  
Euphaedra ceres, Euphaedra medon, Euphaedra phaethusa, Euphaedra perseis, Euphaedra gausape

Euphaedra harpalyce, the common blue-banded forester, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea Gabon, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of lowland forests, riparian forests and secondary forests.

Both sexes are attracted to fermenting fruit.

The larvae feed on Phialodiscus unijugatus, Paullinia pinnata, Blighia sapida, Lecaniodiscus cupanoides, Deinbollia fulvotomentella, Blighia unijugata and Allophylus species.

Subspecies

  • E. h. harpalyce (Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, western Cameroon)
  • E. h. dowsetti Hecq, 1990 (Rwanda)
  • E. h. evanescens Hecq, 1995 (Nigeria: Mambilla Plateau)
  • E. h. serena Talbot, 1928 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Shaba, Zambia)
  • E. h. spatiosa (Mabille, 1876) (Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, north-western Tanzania)
  • E. h. sudanensis Talbot, 1929 (southern Sudan, northern Uganda)
  • E. h. vana Hecq, 1991 (Bioko)

    • References

    Euphaedra harpalyce Wikipedia
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