Amauris tartarea

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Amauris tartarea
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Amauris
Species:
A. tartarea
Binomial name
Amauris tartarea
Mabille, 1876 [1]
Synonyms
  • Amauris egialea var. tartareaMabille, 1876
  • Amauris (Amauris) tartarea
  • Amauris psyttaleaPlötz, 1880
  • Amauris damocles var. gabunicaAurivillius, 1881
  • Amauris bulbiferaGrose-Smith, 1887
  • Amauris damocles var. albidiorStaudinger, 1896
  • Amauris mozartiSuffert, 1904
  • Amauris tartarea reataSuffert, 1904
  • Amauris psyttalea ab. intermediaGrünberg, 1911
  • Amauris damocles ab. bibundanaStrand, 1913
  • Amauris damocles ab. tartaroidesStrand, 1913
  • Amauris damocles ab. bassanaStrand, 1913
  • Amauris damocles ab. psyttaloidesStrand, 1913
  • Amauris psyttalea vansomereniBryk, 1937
  • Amauris psyttalea vansomereni ab. lagaiDufrane, 1948
  • Amauris tartarea f. palisoteaStoneham, 1958
  • Amauris tartarea f. steropesStoneham, 1958
  • Amauris damocles var. damoclidesStaudinger, 1896
  • Amauris lecerfiBoullet, 1913
  • Amauris damocles damoclides ab. amplificataJoicey and Talbot, 1925

Amauris tartarea, the monk or dusky friar, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana and Namibia. [2] The habitat consists of various types of forests.

Contents

Adult males mud-puddle and imbibe pyrrolizidine alkaloids from Heliotropium species, especially from the roots of dug-up plants. Both sexes are attracted to flowers. The species is mimicked by Hypolimnas anthedon .

The larvae feed on Asclepiadaceae and Brassica species.

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References

  1. "Amauris Hübner, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Subtribe Danaina". Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2012-05-29.

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