Species name |
Cymothoe caenis (Drury, 1773)
ウスキタテハ
Common glider |
Taxonomy |
Papilio
caenis
Drury, 1773. Illustrations of Natural
History 2: index et 33 (90 pp.). London.
Type locality: Nigeria: “Calabar”. ”.
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Subspecies |
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Distribution
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Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria (south),
Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, Angola, Democratic Republic
of Congo, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia.. |
Distribution Map |
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Biology
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Host plant: Rawsonia usambarensis Schaumann (Flacourtiaceae) [Van Someren, 1974: 318]. Rawsonia lucida Harvey & Sender (Flacourtiaceae) [Van Someren, 1974:
318]. Caloncoba gilgiana (Flacourtiaceae) [Vuattoux and Blandin, 1979 (Ivory
Coast)]. Caloncoba glauca (Flacourtiaceae) [Kielland, 1990: 114]. Lindaeckeria species (Flacourtiaceae) [Bampton, et al., 1991 (Congo)]. Uapaca species (Euphorbiaceae) [Ackery, et al., 1995; requires confirmation
(Larsen, 2005a)]. Oncoba spinosa (Flacourtiaceae) [Larsen, 2005a (Aburi, Ghana)].
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Nigeria |
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References
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Neptis, Site of Markku Savela
Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini |