Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Nymphalidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Palla | |
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Similar Palla publius, Palla violinitens, Palla ussheri, Charaxes lucretius, Charaxes cynthia | ||
Palla decius, the white-banded palla, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the western part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and northern Angola. The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests.
The larvae feed on Calycobolus africanus, Bonomia poranoides and Clerodendron buchholzii.
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