Euphaedra zampa
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Euphaedra |
| Species: | E. zampa
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| Euphaedra zampa | |
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Euphaedra zampa, the green orange forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Ghana.[2] The habitat consists of primary wet forests.
Description
zampa Westw. (42 c)[under eleus] Forewing above unicolorous light bluish grey-green, with very narrow, sometimes interrupted, white subapical band and white apical spot; hindwing above similarly coloured, only occasionally tinged with red-yellow in the cell, and with very broad, white-spotted marginal band. Beneath both wings are red-yellow, at the distal margin more or less greenish grey; cell of the forewing with 3, of the hindwing with one black dot. Sierra Leone. — ab. ferruginea Stgr.[ now species Euphaedra ferruginea] only differs in having the hindwing above brown-red to beyond the middle and only close to the marginal band narrowly greenish. Old Calabar, Cameroons.[3] Images GBIF
Biology
Adults are attracted to fruit.
Taxonomy
Elevated to species by Michel Guillaumin [4]
Similar species
Other members of the Euphaedra eleus species group q.v.
References
- ^ "Euphaedra Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini
- ^ Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Grosschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Grosschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Guillaumin, M. 1976 Les Euphaedra du "groupe eleus Drury". Polymorphisme, variation géographique, spéciation [Lep. Nymphalidae] Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 81 (3-4) : 112-125