Apaturopsis cleochares

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Painted empress
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Apaturopsis
Species:
A. cleochares
Binomial name
Apaturopsis cleochares
(Hewitson, 1873) [1]
Synonyms
  • Apatura cleocharesHewitson, 1873

Apaturopsis cleochares, the painted empress, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. [2] The habitat consists of forests and heavy woodland.

Adults are attracted to fermenting bananas, excrement and other decaying matter. They are on wing from September to May.

The larvae possibly feed on Obetia tenax .

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References

  1. "Apaturopsis Aurivillius, 1898" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Subfamily Apaturinae". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-05-30.