Kingdom Animalia Family Nymphalidae Genus Lachnoptera Order Butterflies and moths | Class Insecta Phylum Arthropoda Rank Species | |
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Similar Nepheronia argia, Antanartia delius, Butterflies and moths, Phalanta eurytis, Amauris vashti | ||
Lachnoptera anticlia, the western blotched leopard, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania and north-western Zambia. The habitat consists of forests and forest margins.
Adults fly in the forest under storey as well as on top of the canopy. Both sexes are attracted to flowers and males mud-puddle and are attracted to urine patches.
The larvae feed on Rawsonia lucida and Scotellia chevalieri.
References
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