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Palla ussheri

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Palla

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Palla publius, Palla violinitens, Palla decius, Charaxes pleione, Charaxes paphianus

Palla ussheri, the Ussher's palla, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests.

The larvae feed on Dichapetalum species, Prevostea breviflora, Bonomia poranoides and Toddalia asiatica.

Subspecies

  • Palla ussheri ussheri (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria)
  • Palla ussheri dobelli (Hall, 1919) (Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, western and central Democratic Republic of the Congo)
  • Palla ussheri interposita Joicey & Talbot, 1925 (central and western Uganda, western Tanzania, Zambia)

    • References

    Palla ussheri Wikipedia
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